--- title: In the "Fox-wailer,"[29] for example--one of the variants of the wel… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the "Fox-wailer,"[29] for example--one of the variants of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" story--an old man puts his wife in a bag and attempts to carry her up the beanstalk to heaven. Who acts: old man, known Jack story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/51/) [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/) / 51 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 51 In the "Fox-wailer,"\[29\] for example--one of the variants of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" story--an old man puts his wife in a bag and attempts to carry her up the beanstalk to heaven. **Who acts:** old man, known Jack story · **What happens:** know, put, carry up, vary · **To what, where:** wife, bag 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 (old man, known Jack story), 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:pg22373:13:51 # text = In the "Fox-wailer,"[29] for example--one of the variants of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" story--an old man puts his wife in a bag and attempts to carry her up the beanstalk to heaven. 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 wailer wailer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Beanstalk Beanstalk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 30 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 attempts attempt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 beanstalk beanstalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **put** | present | a old man | man's wife | | a bag and attempts | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme in bag=Destination | | 3 | **carry up** | to-infinitive | a old man *not said here* | | wife | | | to heaven | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary beanstalk=Value | | 4 | **vary** | | the known Jack story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/52/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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