Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 45
After talking awhile, they lay down to sleep.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: talk, lay down, sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 talking | mark |
| 2 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lay | advcl |
| 3 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 2 talking | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 talking | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lay | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | pieces = piece not said here | awhile property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | pieces = piece | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | pieces = piece 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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