Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
Then they all went and lay down, and they all went to sleep, only Zamorýshek took care to keep his eyes open.
Who acts: daughters, Zamorýshek · What happens: go, lay down, take, keep · To what, where: sleep, care, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, Zamorýshek), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 Zamorýshek | advmod |
| 17 | Zamorýshek | Zamorýshek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | advcl |
| 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 keep | obj |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | daughters = daughter | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | daughters = daughter | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Zamorýshek | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | Zamorýshek not said here | ZAMORÝSHEK's eyes | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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: «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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