Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 93
It's a great sin to dishonor Mother Friday--combing and spinning flax, forsooth!
Who acts: worship · What happens: be, dishonor, comb, spin · To what, where: great sin, Mother, flax
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 (worship), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sin | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sin | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sin | amod |
| 5 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 dishonor | mark |
| 7 | dishonor | dishonor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sin | acl |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dishonor | obj |
| 9 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dishonor | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 combing | punct |
| 11 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dishonor | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spinning | cc |
| 13 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 combing | conj |
| 14 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spinning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forsooth | punct |
| 16 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flax | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | worship | a great sin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dishonor | to-infinitive | Mother | friday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comb | gerund | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | flax | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=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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