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description: She span away till dinner-time, then suddenly sleep fell upon her--such a deep sleep! Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 80

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She span away till dinner-time, then suddenly sleep fell upon her--such a deep sleep!

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** span away, sleep, fall · **To what, where:** deep sleep

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:37:80
# text = She span away till dinner-time, then suddenly sleep fell upon her--such a deep sleep!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	span	span	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **span away** | infinitive | woman | such deep sleep |  |  | time | away *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon woman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |

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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.

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**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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