Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 10
Thus they fought the whole day, and in the evening they lay down to rest.
Who acts: birds · What happens: fight, lay down, rest
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 fought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rest | mark |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lay | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | birds = bird | day | thus property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lay down | present | birds = bird | evening | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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