Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 110
The people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on the look-out and never closed an eye.
Who acts: people, Cossack · What happens: lie down, sleep, be, not close · To what, where: look out, eye
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (people, Cossack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 19 out | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 out | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cossack | det |
| 13 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 out | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 out | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 out | det |
| 17 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 19 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 closed | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 closed | advmod |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 out | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 closed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the people of the house | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the people of the house not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Cossack | the look out | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not close | participle | the Cossack not said here | a eye | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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