Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 79
According to Schleicher ("Lituanica," p. 109), Thursday evening is called in Lithuania _Laumiu vakars_, the Laume's Eve. No work ought to be done on a Thursday evening, and it is especially imprudent to spin then.
Who acts: it · What happens: accord, call, do, be, spin · To what, where: Thursday evening, Lithuania, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Schleicher | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Schleicher | Schleicher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lituanica | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lituanica | punct |
| 6 | Lituanica | Lituanica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Schleicher | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lituanica | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lituanica | punct |
| 9 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lituanica | flat |
| 10 | 109 | 109 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 p. | flat |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lituanica | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Schleicher | punct |
| 13 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 evening | compound |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Lithuania | case |
| 18 | Lithuania | Lithuania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 vakars | punct |
| 20 | Laumiu | Laumiu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 vakars | compound |
| 21 | vakars | vakar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Lithuania | appos |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 vakars | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Eve. | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Laume | det |
| 25 | Laume | Laume | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Eve. | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Laume | case |
| 27 | Eve. | Eve. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lithuania | conj |
| 28 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 work | det |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 done | aux:pass |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 called | parataxis |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 evening | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 evening | det |
| 36 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 evening | compound |
| 37 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 imprudent | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 imprudent | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 imprudent | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 imprudent | cop |
| 42 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 43 imprudent | advmod |
| 43 | imprudent | imprudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 called | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 spin | mark |
| 45 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 imprudent | csubj |
| 46 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 spin | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Thursday evening | Lithuania and the Laume's Eve. | accord Schleicher | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do | ought · passive | no work | evening | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | it | especially, imprudent property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spin | to-infinitive | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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