Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 45

So they took him into the courtyard, but instead of chopping any wood he lay down and went to sleep.

Who acts: nixies, last · What happens: take, chop, lie down, go · To what, where: last, courtyard, wood, sleep

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nixies, last), 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 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 courtyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 chopping	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lay	advcl
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chopping	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 lay	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lay	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 sleep	case
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	nixies = nixy	last	the courtyard		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into courtyard=Destination
2	chop	gerund	last not said here	any wood			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
3	lie down	past	last			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	last not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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