Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 107

"Ever since that time," says the story, "it has been customary to offer prayers and thanksgiving (_molebnui_) to Nicholas twice a year, but to Kasian only once every leap-year."

Who acts: story, thanksgiving · What happens: say, be, offer · To what, where: customary, prayers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (story, thanksgiving), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
2	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 time	advmod
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 customary	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 customary	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 customary	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 customary	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 customary	cop
16	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 offer	mark
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 customary	acl
19	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 offer	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thanksgiving	cc
21	thanksgiving	thanksgiving	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prayers	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 molebnui	punct
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 molebnui	punct
24	molebnui	molebnui	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	16 customary	conj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 molebnui	punct
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 molebnui	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Nicholas	case
28	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 molebnui	obl
29	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 year	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 year	det
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 molebnui	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Kasian	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 Kasian	cc
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Kasian	case
35	Kasian	Kasian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 once	advmod
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 Kasian	advmod
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 year	det
39	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 year	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 leap	punct
41	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 once	obl:unmarked
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 Kasian	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Kasian	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present · perfect	thanksgiving	customary and molebnui	tree rules
3	offer in a quote	to-infinitive	the story not said here	prayers and thanksgiving	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=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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