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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 73 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 73 Sometimes, however, she has been seen, says the popular voice, "all pricked with the needles and pierced by the spindles" of the careless woman who sewed and spun on the day they ought to have kept holy in her honor. **Who acts:** careless woman, Pyatinka · **What happens:** see, say, prick, pierce, sew, spin · **To what, where:** Pyatinka, popular voice, all, villagers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (careless woman, Pyatinka), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:37:73 # text = Sometimes, however, she has been seen, says the popular voice, "all pricked with the needles and pierced by the spindles" of the careless woman who sewed and spun on the day they ought to have kept holy in her honor. 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 pricked prick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 spindles spindle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 spun spin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux _ _ 42 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · perfect · passive | | Pyatinka | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the popular voice | | | | however, sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | | 3 | **prick** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | all | | | | with the needles | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with needle=Instrument | | 4 | **pierce** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | by the spindles of the careless woman | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sew** | past | the careless woman | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spin** | participle | | | | | day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | ought · perfect · passive | | villagers *= villager* | | | | holy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **honor** | | Pyatinka | | | | | | nom honor «communication transitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/74/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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