Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 165

Then he carried off the heads of his forty daughters in a bunch (for the brides now had on the night-dresses of their bridegrooms), and went and lay down to sleep.

Who acts: foal · What happens: carry off, have, go, lay down, sleep · To what, where: heads, bunch, night dresses

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 (foal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 carried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heads	det
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 daughters	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughters	nmod:poss
9	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 daughters	nummod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heads	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bunch	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bunch	det
13	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 brides	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brides	det
17	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 dresses	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dresses	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dresses	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 night	punct
24	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 bridegrooms	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bridegrooms	nmod:poss
27	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dresses	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 went	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sleep	mark
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 lay	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past	foal	the heads of foal's forty daughters	a bunch	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Value in bunch=Location
2	have	past			the night dresses of dresses's bridegrooms	now	for the brides	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay down	infinitive					down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	to-infinitive						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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