Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 123

Every day, from morn till eve, it was always toil and toil, and all merely for the day's subsistence.

Who acts: day · What happens: be, subsist · To what, where: toil

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toil	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 morn	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 morn	case
5	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 eve	case
7	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 morn	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 toil	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 toil	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 toil	advmod
12	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toil	cc
14	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toil	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 subsistence	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 subsistence	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 subsistence	advmod
18	merely	merely	ADV	_	23 subsistence	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 subsistence	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 subsistence	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 day	case
23	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toil	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 toil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	every day	toil and toil and the day's subsistence				always property	tree rules
2	subsist		the day						nom subsistence «possession intransitive»: 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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