Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 15
"Lie down, daughter, and rest a bit," said the mother.
Who acts: mother · What happens: lie down, rest, say · To what, where: daughter, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 2 | Lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 Lie | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lie | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rest | cc |
| 8 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Lie | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down in a quote | infinitive | daughter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rest in a quote | infinitive | a bit | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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