Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 85
Then he fell into so deep a slumber that the monster drew nigh without awaking him.
Who acts: saint, monster · What happens: fall, draw, awake · To what, where: deep slumber, saint
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 (saint, monster), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 slumber | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 deep | advmod |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slumber | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 slumber | det |
| 8 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 drew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monster | det |
| 11 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | advcl |
| 13 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 awaking | mark |
| 15 | awaking | awake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 drew | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awaking | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | saint | then | into a deep slumber result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into slumber=Result | |||
| 2 | draw | past | the monster | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awake | gerund | the monster not said here | saint | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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