Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 139

In the summertime they used to go out and mow corn in the fields, and one summer when they had laid their little lad by the side of a sheaf, an eagle swooped down, caught up the child, carried him into a forest, and laid him in its nest.

Who acts: women, eagle · What happens: use, go out, mow, lay, swoop down, catch up · To what, where: summertime, corn, fields, little lad, eagle, child

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, eagle), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 summertime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summertime	det
3	summertime	summertime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mow	cc
10	mow	mow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
11	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mow	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 corn	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 summer	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 summer	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 summer	nummod
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 laid	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laid	aux
22	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 summer	acl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lad	nmod:poss
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lad	amod
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sheaf	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sheaf	det
31	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eagle	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 eagle	det
34	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sheaf	appos
35	swooped	swoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 eagle	acl
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 swooped	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 caught	punct
38	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 eagle	acl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 caught	compound:prt
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 child	det
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 caught	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 carried	punct
43	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	parataxis
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 carried	obj
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 forest	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 forest	det
47	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 carried	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 laid	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 laid	cc
50	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 carried	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 laid	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 nest	case
53	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 nest	nmod:poss
54	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 laid	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	women = woman		the summertime	summer		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mow	present	women = woman not said here	corn	the fields			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
4	lay	past · perfect	women = woman	women's little lad			by the side of a sheaf	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lad=Theme by side=Destination
5	swoop down	participle		a eagle not said here				tree rules
6	catch up	participle	a eagle not said here	the child				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
7	carry	past		eagle	a forest			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	lay	past		eagle	forest's nest			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in nest=Destination

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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