Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 72
In others they sweep their floors every Thursday evening, that she may not be annoyed by dust or the like when she comes next day.
Who acts: villagers, Pyatinka · What happens: sweep, not be, come · To what, where: floors, others
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 (villagers, Pyatinka), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 others | case |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweep | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sweep | nsubj |
| 4 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 floors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweep | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 evening | det |
| 8 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 evening | compound |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweep | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 annoyed | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 annoyed | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 annoyed | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 annoyed | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 annoyed | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 annoyed | cop |
| 16 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sweep | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 dust | case |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 annoyed | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 comes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 comes | det |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 comes | mark |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 comes | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 comes | nsubj |
| 24 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 annoyed | conj |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | present | villagers = villager | villagers's floors | others | evening | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent floor=Theme in other=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not is | may | Pyatinka | by dust; annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | Pyatinka | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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