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description: Strukis awoke in time to upset the fisherman's boat; but fearing a repetition of the attempt, it now changes each year the hour of its annual sleep. Who acts: Strukis, fisherman, attempt. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 85

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Strukis awoke in time to upset the fisherman's boat; but fearing a repetition of the attempt, it now changes each year the hour of its annual sleep.

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**Who acts:** Strukis, fisherman, attempt · **What happens:** awake, upset, fear, change, repeat, sleep · **To what, where:** boat, repetition

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strukis, fisherman, attempt), 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:pg22373:46:85
# text = Strukis awoke in time to upset the fisherman's boat; but fearing a repetition of the attempt, it now changes each year the hour of its annual sleep.
1	Strukis	Strukis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Strukis |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **upset** | to-infinitive | Strukis *not said here* | the fisherman's boat |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boat=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fear** | gerund | Strukis *not said here* | a repetition of the attempt |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer repetition=Stimulus |
| 4 | **change** | present | fisherman |  |  |  | now; hour; year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repeat** |  | the attempt |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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