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title: The people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on the look-out and never closed an eye. Who acts: people, Cossack. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 110

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The people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on the look-out and never closed an eye.

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**Who acts:** people, Cossack · **What happens:** lie down, sleep, be, not close · **To what, where:** look out, eye

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Cossack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:46:110
# text = The people of the house lay down to sleep; but the Cossack was on the look-out and never closed an eye.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | the people of the house |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the people of the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Cossack |  |  | the look out |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **close** | participle | the Cossack *not said here* | a eye |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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