Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 80

For at night, when the Laumes come, as they are accustomed to do between Thursday evening and Friday morning, they seize any spinning which has been begun, work away at it till cock-crow, and then carry it off.

Who acts: Laumes · What happens: come, accustom, do, seize, begin, work away · To what, where: Laumes, spinning

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 (Laumes), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Laumes	det
7	Laumes	laume	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 accustomed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 accustomed	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 accustomed	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 accustomed	aux:pass
13	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 come	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 accustomed	xcomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 evening	case
17	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 evening	compound
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 morning	cc
20	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 morning	compound
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evening	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seize	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seize	nsubj
24	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	conj
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 spinning	det
26	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seize	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 begun	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 begun	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 begun	aux:pass
30	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 spinning	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 work	punct
32	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seize	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 work	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 work	obl
36	till	till	ADP	_	39 crow	case
37	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 crow	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 cock	punct
39	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 work	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 carry	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 carry	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 carry	advmod
43	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 carry	obj
45	off	off	ADP	_	43 carry	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the Laumes		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accustom	present · passive		Laumes = laume			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive			evening		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seize	present	Laumes = laume	any spinning			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinning=Theme
5	begin	present · perfect · passive		any spinning			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	work away	infinitive	Laumes = laume not said here		till cock crow	at spinning; away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
7	carry off	infinitive	the Laumes not said here	spinning	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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