Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 84

It used always to sleep on St. John's Night, but a fisherman once took advantage of its slumber to catch a quantity of its scaly subjects.

Who acts: lake, fisherman · What happens: use, sleep, take, catch, slumber · To what, where: advantage, quantity

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, fisherman), 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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 used	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 Night	case
7	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 John	nmod:desc
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Night	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 John	case
10	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fisherman	det
14	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	nsubj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 took	advmod
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
17	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 slumber	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 slumber	nmod:poss
20	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 advantage	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 catch	mark
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 took	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 quantity	det
24	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 catch	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 subjects	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 subjects	nmod:poss
27	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 subjects	amod
28	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 quantity	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	lake			always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	lake not said here		on John St.'s Night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	a fisherman	advantage of lake's slumber		once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
4	catch	to-infinitive	a fisherman not said here	a quantity of lake's scaly subjects			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
5	slumber		lake				nom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=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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