Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 10

And at night-time the little Tsar went to lie down and the tooth killed him.

Who acts: little Tsar, tooth · What happens: go, lie down, kill · To what, where: Tsar

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Tsar, tooth), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tsar	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tsar	amod
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lie	mark
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	xcomp
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 killed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tooth	det
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	nsubj
16	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 killed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	the little Tsar		time	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie down	to-infinitive	the little Tsar not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill	past	the tooth	Tsar		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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