Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 72

It lay down to sleep on the bare floor; she lay on the bench.

Who acts: bench, Wind · What happens: lie down, sleep, lie · To what, where: bare floor, bench

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bench, Wind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 floor	amod
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bench	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bench	det
15	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	bench		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	bench not said here	the bare floor		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past	Wind	the bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

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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