Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 59

He has been told that when she is awake her custom is to divert herself in the green fields with her Amazon host--"for nine days she rambles about, and then for nine days she sleeps a heroic slumber."

Who acts: youngest, custom · What happens: tell, be, ramble, sleep · To what, where: father, green fields, Amazon host, heroic slumber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, custom), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 divert	mark
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 awake	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awake	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 divert	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 custom	nmod:poss
11	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 divert	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 divert	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 divert	mark
14	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 divert	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 fields	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fields	amod
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 divert	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 host	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 host	nmod:poss
22	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 host	compound
23	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 divert	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 days	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 days	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 host	obl:unmarked
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rambles	nsubj
30	rambles	ramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 host	acl:relcl
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 rambles	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sleeps	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sleeps	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 sleeps	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sleeps	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sleeps	nsubj
39	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 slumber	det
41	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 slumber	amod
42	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sleeps	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present	youngest = young				awake property	tree rules
3	is not said to happen	present	youngest's custom		the green fields		with youngest's Amazon host; divert property	tree rules
4	ramble in a quote	present	youngest = young	youngest's Amazon host not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme host=Trajectory
5	sleep in a quote	present	youngest = young	a heroic slumber		then; day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slumber=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 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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