Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 2
Presently he grew tired and again lay down to rest, and nodded off.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: grow, lay down, rest, nod off
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rest | mark |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lay | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nodded | cc |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 nodded | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | serpent | presently, tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | serpent not said here | again | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | serpent not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | nod off | past | serpent not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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