Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 14
Lie down to sleep!"--So she lay down to sleep, and when she awoke the flax was all unravelled and reeled and spun into fine cloth, and bleached.
Who acts: you, woman, flax · What happens: lie down, sleep, awake, be, reel, spin · To what, where: fine cloth
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, flax), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sleep | mark |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lie | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 8 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lay | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 awoke | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 awoke | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 awoke | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 awoke | nsubj |
| 18 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flax | det |
| 20 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unravelled | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 unravelled | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 unravelled | advmod |
| 23 | unravelled | unravelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 awoke | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reeled | cc |
| 25 | reeled | reel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 unravelled | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spun | cc |
| 27 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 reeled | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 cloth | case |
| 29 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cloth | amod |
| 30 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spun | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bleached | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bleached | cc |
| 33 | bleached | bleach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie down in a quote | past | woman | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | awake in a quote | past | woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | the flax | all, unravelled property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | reel in a quote | participle | the flax not said here | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | spin in a quote | participle | the flax not said here | fine cloth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cloth=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | bleach in a quote | past | woman not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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