Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 22

The old man ate his fill, drank his fill, and then lay down to sleep.

Who acts: old man · What happens: eat, drink, lay down, sleep · To what, where: fill

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fill	nmod:poss
6	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drank	punct
8	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fill	nmod:poss
10	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drank	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
14	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ate	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 lay	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lay	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the old man	man's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
2	drink	past	the old man not said here	man's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
3	lay down	infinitive	the old man not said here		then	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the old man not said here				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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