Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 136
The Soldier returned home, lay down on the bench, and slept till evening.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: return, lay down, sleep · To what, where: bench
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Soldier), 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 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bench | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bench | det |
| 10 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slept | cc |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Soldier | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | the Soldier not said here | the bench | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bench=Destination | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | the Soldier not said here | evening | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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