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description: Melania makes a little speech to the young couple, ending her recommendation to get married with the words:-- Who acts: Melania. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 213

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Melania makes a little speech to the young couple, ending her recommendation to get married with the words:--

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**Who acts:** Melania · **What happens:** make, end, marry, recommend · **To what, where:** little speech, recommendation

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (Melania), 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:pg22373:12:213
# text = Melania makes a little speech to the young couple, ending her recommendation to get married with the words:--
1	Melania	Melania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Melania | a little speech |  |  |  | to the young couple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | Melania *not said here* | Melania's recommendation |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality recommendation=Eventuality |
| 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | Melania *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the words | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: with word=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **recommend** |  | Melania |  |  |  |  |  | nom recommendation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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