Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 43

As for them, they lay in bed late, washed themselves in water got ready for them, dried themselves with a clean towel, and didn't sit down to work till after dinner.

Who acts: stepsisters, water · What happens: lay, wash, get, dry, not sit down, work · To what, where: bed, stepsisters

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepsisters, water), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 them	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 washed	punct
11	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	parataxis
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 washed	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	advcl
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ready	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dried	punct
20	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 dried	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 towel	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 towel	det
24	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 towel	amod
25	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sit	cc
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 sit	advmod
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dried	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sit	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 work	mark
33	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sit	advcl
34	till	till	ADP	_	36 dinner	case
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 dinner	case
36	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 work	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	stepsisters = stepsister		bed		as stepsisters = stepsister; late property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as they=Attribute
2	wash	past		stepsisters = stepsister				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	get	past	water				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	dry	past		stepsisters = stepsister			with a clean towel	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with towel=Instrument
5	not sit down	past · do-support					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	work	to-infinitive				till dinner		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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