Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 14

After the meal the old man lay down to take a nap, but the Pope kept scheming how to steal the loaves from him.

Who acts: old man, Pope · What happens: lay down, take, keep, scheme, steal · To what, where: nap, loaves

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (old man, Pope), 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	ADP	_	3 meal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nap	det
12	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Pope	det
16	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
18	scheming	scheme	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 steal	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 steal	mark
21	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 scheming	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 loaves	det
23	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 steal	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 steal	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	infinitive	the old man		after the meal	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a nap			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme
3	keep	past	the Pope				tree rules
4	scheme	gerund	the Pope not said here				vn conspire-71 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	steal	to-infinitive	the Pope not said here	the loaves		from Pope	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme from he=Source

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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