Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 74
As for any work begun on a Friday, it is sure to go wrong.
Who acts: it · What happens: begin, be, go · To what, where: work
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 (it), 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 | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 work | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sure | obl |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 work | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Friday | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Friday | det |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | xcomp |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 go | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | participle | any work not said here | friday | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | as any work; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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