Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 80
She span away till dinner-time, then suddenly sleep fell upon her--such a deep sleep!
Who acts: woman · What happens: span away, sleep, fall · To what, where: deep sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 span | nsubj |
| 2 | span | span | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 span | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dinner | punct |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 span | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleep | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 sleep | advmod |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 span | parataxis |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sleep | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sleep | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sleep | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sleep | amod |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 span | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 span | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | span away | infinitive | woman | such deep sleep | time | away property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | sleep | infinitive | then | suddenly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | upon woman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |
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 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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