Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 84

By midnight his task was done, and then he laid him down to sleep.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: do, lay down, sleep, task · To what, where: task

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 task	nmod:poss
4	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 laid	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 laid	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laid	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past · passive		Ivan's task	midnight	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	lay down	past	Ivan	task	then	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	task		Ivan			nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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