Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 67
As she is supposed to wander about the houses of the peasants on her holy day, and to be offended if she finds certain kinds of work going on, they are (or at least they used to be) frequently suspended on Fridays.
Who acts: personality, certain kinds, kinds · What happens: suppose, wander, offend, find, go on, be · To what, where: personality, certain kinds, least
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 (personality, certain kinds, kinds), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 supposed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 are | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wander | mark |
| 6 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 supposed | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 houses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 houses | det |
| 9 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wander | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 peasants | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasants | det |
| 12 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 houses | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peasants | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 offended | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 offended | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 offended | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 offended | aux:pass |
| 21 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 supposed | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 finds | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 finds | nsubj |
| 24 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 offended | advcl |
| 25 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kinds | amod |
| 26 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 finds | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kinds | nmod |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 finds | xcomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 going | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposed | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 are | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 used | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 used | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 least | case |
| 37 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 used | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 used | nsubj |
| 39 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 are | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 be | mark |
| 41 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 used | xcomp |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 used | punct |
| 43 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 44 suspended | advmod |
| 44 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 used | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 Fridays | case |
| 46 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 suspended | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | personality | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | to-infinitive | about the houses of the peasants on personality's holy day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about house=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | offend | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | personality | certain kinds of work | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent kind=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go on | gerund | certain kinds of work not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | does | present | kinds = kind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | use | past | kinds = kind | least | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | be | to-infinitive | kinds = kind not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | suspend | participle | kinds = kind not said here | friday | frequently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «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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