Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 47

So they took and slew him in front of the threshold, and they hung his four quarters in the four corners as he had bidden them, and then they laid them down to sleep.

Who acts: woods, quarter · What happens: take, slay, hang, bid, lay down, sleep · To what, where: quarter, front, four quarters, four corners, woods, teeth

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 (woods, quarter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slew	cc
5	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slew	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slew	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 threshold	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 threshold	det
11	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hung	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hung	nsubj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 quarters	nmod:poss
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 quarters	nummod
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hung	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 corners	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corners	det
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 corners	nummod
22	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hung	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 bidden	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bidden	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bidden	aux
26	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hung	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bidden	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laid	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 laid	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	nsubj
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 laid	compound:prt
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sleep	mark
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 laid	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	woods = wood				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	slay	past	woods = wood not said here	quarter	front of the threshold		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	hang	past	woods = wood	quarter's four quarters	the four corners		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme in corner=Destination
4	bid	past · perfect	quarter	woods = wood			tree rules
5	lay down	past	woods = wood	teeth = tooth		then	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
6	sleep	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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