Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 54
So he lay down to sleep, and early in the morning Bary let them know that the Iron Wolf was drawing nigh.
Who acts: dog, Bary, people, Iron Wolf · What happens: lie down, sleep, let, know, draw · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dog, Bary, people, Iron Wolf), 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 lay | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 early | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 early | cc |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 early | obl |
| 13 | Bary | Bary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 let | nsubj |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 drawing | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wolf | det |
| 19 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wolf | compound |
| 20 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 drawing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawing | aux |
| 22 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 know | ccomp |
| 23 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 22 drawing | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | dog | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | past | Bary | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | draw | past · progressive | the Iron Wolf | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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: «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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