--- title: According to Schleicher ("Lituanica," p. 109), Thursday evening is c… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) / 79 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:41:79 # text = 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. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 Schleicher Schleicher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Lituanica Lituanica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 10 109 109 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Lithuania Lithuania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Laumiu Laumiu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 vakars vakar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Laume Laume PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 Eve. Eve. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 especially especially ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 imprudent imprudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 csubj _ _ 46 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/80/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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