Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 79

Sometimes, however, a less familiar incident occurs.

Who acts: familiar incident · What happens: occur

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (familiar incident), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 occurs	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	9 occurs	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 incident	det
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 familiar	advmod
7	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 incident	amod
8	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occurs	nsubj
9	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 occurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	a familiar incident					however, sometimes property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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