Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 85

Strukis awoke in time to upset the fisherman's boat; but fearing a repetition of the attempt, it now changes each year the hour of its annual sleep.

Who acts: Strukis, fisherman, attempt · What happens: awake, upset, fear, change, repeat, sleep · To what, where: boat, repetition

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 (Strukis, fisherman, attempt), 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	Strukis	Strukis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 awoke	nsubj
2	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 awoke	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 upset	mark
6	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 awoke	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 fisherman	case
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 upset	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fearing	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fearing	cc
13	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 awoke	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 repetition	det
15	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fearing	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 attempt	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 attempt	det
18	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repetition	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 changes	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 changes	nsubj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 changes	advmod
22	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 awoke	conj
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changes	obl:unmarked
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changes	obl:unmarked
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 sleep	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sleep	nmod:poss
29	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sleep	amod
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hour	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	awake	past	Strukis		time	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	upset	to-infinitive	Strukis not said here	the fisherman's boat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boat=Experiencer
3	fear	gerund	Strukis not said here	a repetition of the attempt		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer repetition=Stimulus
4	change	present	fisherman		now; hour; year	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	repeat		the attempt			nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	sleep		fisherman			nom sleep «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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