--- title: [51] Thereupon her husband determined to remedy the short-comings of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [51] Thereupon her husband determined to remedy the short-comings of her early education, and "whenever she showed herself capricious, or took to squalling, he immediately had her swaddled and placed in a _liulka_, and began swinging her to and fro." Who acts: husband, living, man, early education. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/32/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) / 32 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 32 \[51\] Thereupon her husband determined to remedy the short-comings of her early education, and "whenever she showed herself capricious, or took to squalling, he immediately had her swaddled and placed in a \_liulka\_, and began swinging her to and fro." **Who acts:** husband, living, man, early education · **What happens:** determine, remedy, show, take, squall, have · **To what, where:** 51, short comings, living This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, living, man, early education), 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:pg22373:15:32 # text = [51] Thereupon her husband determined to remedy the short-comings of her early education, and "whenever she showed herself capricious, or took to squalling, he immediately had her swaddled and placed in a _liulka_, and began swinging her to and fro." 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 51 51 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 remedy remedy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 comings coming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 capricious capricious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 to to SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 squalling squall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 swaddled swaddle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 liulka liulka X FW Foreign=Yes 36 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 47 swinging swing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 xcomp _ _ 48 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | past | living's husband | 51 | | | | thereupon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **remedy** | to-infinitive | living's husband *not said here* | the short comings of living's early education | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coming=Patient | | 3 | **show** *in a quote* | past | living | living | | | | capricious, whenever *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | past | living's husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **squall** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | living's husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | man | living | | | | immediately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient | | 7 | **swaddle** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **place** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **swing** *in a quote* | gerund | | living | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **fro** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **come** | | living's early education | | | | | | nom coming «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 13 | **educate** | | living | | | | | | nom education «act transitive»: poss=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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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