Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 60

"That's nothing! lie down and sleep: the morning is wiser than the evening."

Who acts: That, morning · What happens: be, lie down · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, morning), 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	_	4 nothing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nothing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	cop
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleep	cc
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 wiser	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wiser	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wiser	cop
14	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nothing	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wiser	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wiser	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	nothing			tree rules
2	lie down in a quote	infinitive	That not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the morning		evening	wise property	tree rules

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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