Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 73

Sometimes, however, she has been seen, says the popular voice, "all pricked with the needles and pierced by the spindles" of the careless woman who sewed and spun on the day they ought to have kept holy in her honor.

Who acts: careless woman, Pyatinka · What happens: see, say, prick, pierce, sew, spin · To what, where: Pyatinka, popular voice, all, villagers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (careless woman, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 says	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	10 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 however	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
12	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pricked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pricked	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 pricked	nsubj:pass
17	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 needles	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 needles	det
20	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pricked	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pierced	cc
22	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pricked	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 spindles	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spindles	det
25	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pierced	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 spindles	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 woman	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spindles	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sewed	nsubj
32	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 woman	acl:relcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spun	cc
34	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pricked	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 day	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 day	det
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spun	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 kept	nsubj:pass
39	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 kept	aux
40	to	to	PART	_	42 kept	mark
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 kept	aux
42	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 day	acl:relcl
43	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 kept	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 honor	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 honor	nmod:poss
46	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 holy	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect · passive		Pyatinka			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present		the popular voice		however, sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
3	prick in a quote	participle · passive		all		with the needles	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with needle=Instrument
4	pierce in a quote	participle				by the spindles of the careless woman	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sew	past	the careless woman				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	spin	participle			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	ought · perfect · passive		villagers = villager		holy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	honor		Pyatinka				nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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