--- title: For at night, when the Laumes come, as they are accustomed to do bet… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/80/) [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/) / 80 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:41:80 # text = 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. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Laumes laume NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seize seize VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 till till ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 43 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/81/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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