Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 83
It sleeps only once a year, and then only for a single hour.
Who acts: lake · What happens: sleep
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 (lake), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sleeps | nsubj |
| 2 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 once | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 sleeps | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 once | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hour | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hour | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hour | advmod |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 hour | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hour | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hour | amod |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleeps | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | lake | hour | once property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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