Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 56
When dinner was over they all lay down to rest, but the prince hastened off as quickly as he could to Ivan Golik, and said, "Now indeed it is all over with us, for he has given me such and such a task."
Who acts: dinner, pounds, prince · What happens: be, lay down, rest, hasten off, say, give · To what, where: prince, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, pounds, prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 over | advmod |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rest | mark |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 down | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hastened | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hastened | nsubj |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lay | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 hastened | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 hastened | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hastened | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Ivan | case |
| 23 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 could | nmod |
| 24 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ivan | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 over | punct |
| 30 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 indeed | advmod |
| 31 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 35 over | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 over | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 over | cop |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 over | advmod |
| 35 | over | over | ADV | _ | 37 us | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 us | case |
| 37 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 said | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 given | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 given | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 given | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 given | aux |
| 42 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | parataxis |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 given | iobj |
| 44 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 42 given | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 task | cc |
| 46 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 task | det:predet |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 task | det |
| 48 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 given | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dinner | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | pounds = pound | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | pounds = pound not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hasten off | participle | the prince | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | with us | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | dinner | all, indeed, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | prince | me | such property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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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