Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 79

There was once a certain woman who did not pay due reverence to Mother Friday, but set to work on a distaff-ful of flax, combing and whirling it.

Who acts: certain woman, distaff ful · What happens: be, not pay, set, work, comb, whirl · To what, where: due reverence, reverence

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 (certain woman, distaff ful), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pay	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pay	advmod
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 woman	acl:relcl
11	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reverence	amod
12	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Mother	case
14	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 reverence	nmod
15	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mother	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
18	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pay	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 ful	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ful	det
23	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ful	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 distaff	punct
25	ful	ful	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 work	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 flax	case
27	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ful	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 combing	punct
29	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 ful	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 whirling	cc
31	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 combing	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 whirling	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a certain woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not pay	past · do-support	a certain woman	due reverence		to Mother	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Asset
3	set	infinitive	a certain woman not said here				tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	a certain woman not said here			on a distaff ful of flax	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ful=Theme
5	comb	gerund	a distaff ful of flax not said here				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	whirl	gerund	a distaff ful of flax not said here	reverence			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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