Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 73

They went on and on, for it was a long way from the tsardom of that Tsar, and at last he grew weary and lay down in the grass, and she sat at his head.

Who acts: people, Tsarivna, Tsar, last · What happens: go, be, grow, lay down, sit · To what, where: tsardom, last, grass, head

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (people, Tsarivna, Tsar, last), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 way	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 way	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tsardom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tsardom	det
15	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Tsar	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 Tsar	det
18	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tsardom	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grew	nsubj
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
25	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 grew	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 lay	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 grass	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sat	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	people			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Tsarivna	the tsardom of that Tsar	for a long way	tree rules
3	grow	past	Tsar	last	weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	lay down	infinitive	Tsar not said here	the grass	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in grass=Destination
5	sit	past	last	Tsar's head		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=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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