Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 158
So he brought in the foal, and then went to his bedchamber and laid him down to sleep also.
Who acts: brother · What happens: bring, go, lay down, sleep · To what, where: bedchamber, brother
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 (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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 foal | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foal | det |
| 6 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bedchamber | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bedchamber | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bedchamber | bedchamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 laid | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 laid | advcl |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 sleep | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | brother | in the foal | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | brother not said here | brother's bedchamber | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedchamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lay down | past | brother not said here | brother | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | 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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