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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 231

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Only here was a wonder! all day long the babe would take no food, and did nothing but cry; there was no soothing it anyhow.

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**Who acts:** babe · **What happens:** be, take, do, soothe · **To what, where:** wonder, food, nothing, babe

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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 (babe), 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:pg22373:12:231
# text = Only here was a wonder! all day long the babe would take no food, and did nothing but cry; there was no soothing it anyhow.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	csubj	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	soothing	soothe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | day | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | would | the babe | no food |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 5 | **soothe** | gerund |  | babe |  |  |  | anyhow *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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