Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 62
So the Tsar went and lay down to sleep, and the soldier went sentry-guard and did not close his eyes.
Who acts: Tsar, soldier · What happens: go, lay down, sleep, not close · To what, where: sentry guard, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, soldier), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lay | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldier | det |
| 13 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 15 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guard | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sentry | punct |
| 17 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 close | cc |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 close | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 close | advmod |
| 21 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 close | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsar | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the soldier | sentry guard | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guard=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not close | past · do-support | the soldier not said here | TSAR's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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