Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 99
So the old man entered the hut and lay down on the sleeping bench on the top of the stove.
Who acts: old man · What happens: enter, lay down · To what, where: hut, sleeping bench
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 entered | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bench | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bench | det |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bench | amod |
| 14 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 top | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 top | det |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bench | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stove | det |
| 20 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the old man | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the old man not said here | the sleeping bench on the top of the stove | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bench=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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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