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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 59

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At last a fox comes by, and on being appealed to, begins to cry aloud "Turu-Turu, grandmother! grandfather has killed thee!"--a wail which pleases the widower so much that he hands over the fowls to the fox at once, and asks, enraptured, for "that strain again!"

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**Who acts:** last fox, wail, fox · **What happens:** come by, appeal, begin, cry, kill, please · **To what, where:** Turu grandfather, widower, fowls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (last fox, wail, fox), 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:pg22373:13:59
# text = At last a fox comes by, and on being appealed to, begins to cry aloud "Turu-Turu, grandmother! grandfather has killed thee!"--a wail which pleases the widower so much that he hands over the fowls to the fox at once, and asks, enraptured, for "that strain again!"
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	appealed	appeal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Turu	Turu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Turu	Turu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
25	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	widower	widower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	again	again	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come by** | present | a last fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appeal** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **begin** | present | a last fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | a last fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Turu grandfather |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer thou=Result |
| 6 | **please** | present | a wail | the widower |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus widower=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hand** | present | fox |  |  | the fowls to the fox |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a last fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **enrapture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for that strain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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