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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 88

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The old man sent his daughter-in-law to purchase meat and drink and different kind of relishes--everything there ought to be at memorial feasts--and he himself took a ducat in his hand and hobbled back again to the pope's.

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**Who acts:** old man, everything, man · **What happens:** send, purchase, be, take, hobble back · **To what, where:** daughter, meat, memorial feasts, ducat, hand, pope

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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 (old man, everything, man), 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:pg22373:13:88
# text = The old man sent his daughter-in-law to purchase meat and drink and different kind of relishes--everything there ought to be at memorial feasts--and he himself took a ducat in his hand and hobbled back again to the pope's.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	relishes	relish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	memorial	memorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ducat	ducat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	hobbled	hobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the old man | man's daughter and law |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **purchase** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | meat and drink and different kind of relishes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | ought | everything |  |  | memorial feasts |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | man | a ducat |  | man's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ducat=Value in hand=Location |
| 5 | **hobble back** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | the pope | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pope=Destination |

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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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