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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 65

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He collects the children, but as they are "all ever so dirty" he puts them into boiling water by way of cleansing them, and so washes them to death.

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**Who acts:** boy, children, way · **What happens:** collect, be, put, boil, cleanse, wash · **To what, where:** children, boiling water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, children, way), 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:pg22373:11:65
# text = He collects the children, but as they are "all ever so dirty" he puts them into boiling water by way of cleansing them, and so washes them to death.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	collects	collect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present | boy | the children |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | children *= child* |  |  |  | ever | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | present | boy | children *= child* |  | boiling water |  | by way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by way=Destination |
| 4 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cleanse** | gerund | way *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **wash** | present | boy *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | to death | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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