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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 56

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To stay away from this ceremony, or not to purchase a piece of the meat, would be considered a great sin; to mow or make hay on that day would be to incur a terrible risk, for Ilya might smite the field with the thunder, or burn up the crop with the lightning.

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**Who acts:** Ilya · **What happens:** stay away, not purchase, consider, mow, make, be · **To what, where:** ceremony, piece, great sin, hay, field, crop

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilya), 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:pg22373:57:56
# text = To stay away from this ceremony, or not to purchase a piece of the meat, would be considered a great sin; to mow or make hay on that day would be to incur a terrible risk, for Ilya might smite the field with the thunder, or burn up the crop with the lightning.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	mow	mow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	incur	incur	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this ceremony |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **purchase** | to-infinitive |  | a piece of the meat |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | would · passive |  | a great sin |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |
| 4 | **mow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | hay |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hay=Product |
| 6 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | incur *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **smite** | might | Ilya | the field |  |  |  | with the thunder | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with thunder=Instrument |
| 8 | **burn up** | infinitive | Ilya *not said here* | the crop |  |  |  | with the lightning | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crop=Patient with lightning=Instrument |

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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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