Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 85

And so "when she lay down to sleep, it ate her up."

Who acts: stepmother, dish · What happens: lie down, sleep, eat up · To what, where: stepmother

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 (stepmother, dish), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 so	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	12 ate	advmod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lay	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ate	advcl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lay	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 ate	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down in a quote	past	stepmother		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat up in a quote	past	dish	stepmother		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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