Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 73
Then they made merry again till evening and lay down to sleep, but the prince went and told Golik.
Who acts: daughters, prince · What happens: make, lay down, sleep, go, tell · To what, where: Golik · 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 (daughters, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 5 again | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lay | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 20 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | daughters = daughter | then; again; evening | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | Golik | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent golik=Recipient |
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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