Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 86

Meanwhile Zachary sleeps, taking care, however, to be up and at work when the wolf returns to say that the big fishes are in the majority.

Who acts: Zachary, wolf, big fishes · What happens: sleep, take, be, return, say · To what, where: care, majority · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Zachary, wolf, big fishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:5219): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	3 sleeps	advmod
2	Zachary	Zachary	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sleeps	advcl
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	12 up	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 up	cop
12	up	up	ADV	_	5 taking	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 work	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 work	case
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 up	conj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 returns	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returns	nsubj
19	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 up	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 returns	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 majority	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fishes	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fishes	amod
25	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 majority	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 majority	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 majority	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 majority	det
29	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Zachary			meanwhile property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund	Zachary not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	Zachary not said here			however, up property	tree rules
4	return	present	the wolf				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the big fishes		the majority		tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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