Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 141
So he threw in his three remaining gold pieces, and again lay down and slept.
Who acts: brother · What happens: throw, lay down, sleep · To what, where: three remaining gold pieces
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 7 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threw | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slept | cc |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | brother | brother's three remaining gold pieces | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in piece=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | brother not said here | again | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | brother not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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