Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 51
The Soldier lay down to sleep, slept till the evening, and then went to the merchant's.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: lie down, sleep, go · To what, where: merchant
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slept | punct |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sleep | conj |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the Soldier | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Soldier not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sleep | participle | the Soldier not said here | evening | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the Soldier not said here | the merchant | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_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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