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title: It's a great sin to dishonor Mother Friday--combing and spinning fla… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: It's a great sin to dishonor Mother Friday--combing and spinning flax, forsooth! Who acts: worship. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 93

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It's a great sin to dishonor Mother Friday--combing and spinning flax, forsooth!

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**Who acts:** worship · **What happens:** be, dishonor, comb, spin · **To what, where:** great sin, Mother, flax

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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.

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**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:pg22373:37:93
# text = It's a great sin to dishonor Mother Friday--combing and spinning flax, forsooth!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	dishonor	dishonor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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