Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 59

At last they were both utterly exhausted, so they lay down to take a short rest.

Who acts: feet · What happens: exhaust, lay down, take · To what, where: feet, last, short rest

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exhausted	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exhausted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exhausted	aux:pass
5	both	both	ADV	_	7 exhausted	advmod
6	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	7 exhausted	advmod
7	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 exhausted	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lay	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rest	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rest	amod
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exhausted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exhaust	past · passive		feet = foot	last	both, utterly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	lay down	present	feet = foot			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here	a short rest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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