Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 94

He began to eat, ate his fill, and lay down above the stove to sleep.

Who acts: bundle · What happens: begin, eat, lay down, sleep · To what, where: fill, stove

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 (bundle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fill	nmod:poss
8	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	above	above	ADP	_	15 stove	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stove	det
15	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lay	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	bundle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	bundle not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	bundle not said here	bundle's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
4	lay down	infinitive	bundle not said here		the stove	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above stove=Destination
5	sleep	to-infinitive	bundle 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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