Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 33
When he got home he went straight to his chamber to lie down on his pillow.
Who acts: corn · What happens: get, go, lie down · To what, where: chamber, pillow
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 chamber | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lie | mark |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chamber | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lie | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pillow | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | corn | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | corn | corn's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lie down | to-infinitive | corn not said here | corn's pillow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillow=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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