Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 69
Spinning and weaving are especially obnoxious to "Mother Friday," for the dust and refuse thus produced injure her eyes.
Who acts: Spinning · What happens: spin, weave, be, produce
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 (Spinning), 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 | Spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 obnoxious | csubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 weaving | cc |
| 3 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Spinning | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 obnoxious | cop |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 6 obnoxious | advmod |
| 6 | obnoxious | obnoxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mother | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obnoxious | obl |
| 10 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mother | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obnoxious | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 obnoxious | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dust | det |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obnoxious | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 produced | cc |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 produced | aux |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 produced | advmod |
| 19 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obnoxious | conj |
| 20 | injure | injure | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 produced | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obnoxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | weave | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Spinning | to Mother; for the dust; especially, obnoxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | produce | present | Spinning not said here | injure woman's eyes; thus property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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