Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 62
He went and lay down, and his dogs lay down also, Chutko on the threshold of the room door, Vazhko at the threshold of the house door, and Bary at the threshold of the outer gate.
Who acts: dog, dogs · What happens: go, lay down · To what, where: Bary, threshold, Chutko
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, dogs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Chutko | punct |
| 14 | Chutko | Chutko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 threshold | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 threshold | det |
| 17 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Chutko | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 door | compound |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threshold | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Vazhko | punct |
| 23 | Vazhko | Vazhko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chutko | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 threshold | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 threshold | det |
| 26 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | compound |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 threshold | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Bary | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Bary | cc |
| 33 | Bary | Bary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 threshold | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 threshold | det |
| 36 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 gate | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gate | det |
| 39 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gate | amod |
| 40 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threshold | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | Bary | the threshold of the outer gate | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at threshold=Location | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | dog not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lay down | present | dog's dogs | Chutko on the threshold of the room door and Vazhko | the threshold of the house door | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at threshold=Destination |
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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