Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 12
He lay there stretched at full length, his head on the seat of honour,[6] with an arm and leg in each of the four corners, and all his hair standing on end.
Who acts: man, hair · What happens: lie, stretch, stand · To what, where: 6, full length, end
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hair), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 length | amod |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 head | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | appos |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 seat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seat | det |
| 13 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seat | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 6 | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 6 | punct |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 lay | obl |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 6 | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 arm | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 arm | det |
| 22 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 leg | cc |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arm | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 arm | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 corners | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 corners | det |
| 29 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 corners | nummod |
| 30 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 each | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hair | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hair | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hair | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hair | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 36 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 hair | acl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 end | case |
| 38 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 standing | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | man | 6 | there | with a arm in each and leg | tree rules | ||
| 2 | stretch | participle | man not said here | full length | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | man's hair not said here | on end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location |
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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