Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 103
But they were big and heavy, so he soon got tired and lay down to rest, and presently fell asleep.
Who acts: gimlet, serpent · What happens: be, get, lay down, rest, fall
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gimlet, serpent), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 big | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 big | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | cop |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heavy | cc |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 big | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 got | advmod |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | parataxis |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 got | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rest | mark |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lay | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | conj |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gimlet | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | gimlet not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | serpent | soon, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | serpent not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | serpent not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | gimlet not said here | asleep, presently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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