Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 33

So he laid him down to sleep, and was just dropping off when Chutko began to bark.

Who acts: man, Chutko · What happens: lay down, sleep, drop off, begin, bark · To what, where: dog

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Chutko), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropping	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dropping	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropping	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 dropping	advmod
12	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laid	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 dropping	compound:prt
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
15	Chutko	Chutko	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropping	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bark	mark
18	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lay down	past	man	dog	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	sleep	to-infinitive	man not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop off	past · progressive	man not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	Chutko		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bark	to-infinitive	Chutko not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «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: «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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