Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 64

The moujik unharnessed his horse and set it free to graze; meanwhile he laid himself down on one of the graves.

Who acts: moujik · What happens: unharness, set, graze, lay down · To what, where: horse, moujik

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), 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 moujik	det
2	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unharnessed	nsubj
3	unharnessed	unharness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unharnessed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unharnessed	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	obj
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 set	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 graze	mark
11	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 free	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
13	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	15 laid	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unharnessed	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 laid	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 laid	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 laid	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 graves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 graves	det
22	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unharnessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unharness	past	the moujik	moujik's horse		tree rules
2	set	infinitive	the moujik not said here	horse	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	graze	to-infinitive	the moujik not said here			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay down	past	moujik	moujik	on one of the graves; meanwhile property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on one=Destination

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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