Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 87
There he found a bed, on which he lay down to rest.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: find, lie down, rest · To what, where: bed
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 (dinner), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bed | det |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rest | mark |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lay | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | dinner | a bed | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie down | past | dinner | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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