--- title: "Mind, daughter! when I'm dead, don't you wash my body with lukewarm… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Mind, daughter! when I'm dead, don't you wash my body with lukewarm water; but fill a cauldron, make it boil its very hottest, and then with that boiling water regularly scald me all over." Who acts: Mind, you, cauldron. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/23/) [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 I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/) / 23 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 23 "Mind, daughter! when I'm dead, don't you wash my body with lukewarm water; but fill a cauldron, make it boil its very hottest, and then with that boiling water regularly scald me all over." **Who acts:** Mind, you, cauldron · **What happens:** be, not wash, fill, make, boil, scald · **To what, where:** body, cauldron, hottest, moment This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mind, you, cauldron), 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:pg22373:13:23 # text = "Mind, daughter! when I'm dead, don't you wash my body with lukewarm water; but fill a cauldron, make it boil its very hottest, and then with that boiling water regularly scald me all over." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 lukewarm lukewarm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cauldron cauldron NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 boiling boil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 regularly regularly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 scald scald VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 over over ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mind and daughter | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you | my body | | | | with lukewarm water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent body=Patient with water=Instrument | | 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cauldron | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cauldron=Patient | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | cauldron | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | infinitive | cauldron *not said here* | cauldron's hottest | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hot=Patient | | 6 | **boil** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **scald** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the moment *= moment* | | | then | with that boiling water; over, regularly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with water=Instrument | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/24/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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