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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 14

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After the meal the old man lay down to take a nap, but the Pope kept scheming how to steal the loaves from him.

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**Who acts:** old man, Pope · **What happens:** lay down, take, keep, scheme, steal · **To what, where:** nap, loaves

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. 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, Pope), 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:pg22373:59:14
# text = After the meal the old man lay down to take a nap, but the Pope kept scheming how to steal the loaves from him.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	scheming	scheme	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | infinitive | the old man |  |  |  | after the meal | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | a nap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the Pope |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scheme** | gerund | the Pope *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | to-infinitive | the Pope *not said here* | the loaves |  |  |  | from Pope | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme from he=Source |

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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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