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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 47

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One day, after having had his trouble and bother with her he went into the forest to look for berries and distract his grief, and he came to where there was a currant bush, and in the middle of that bush he saw a bottomless pit.

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**Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** have, bother, go, look, distract, come · **To what, where:** trouble, forest, grief, bottomless pit, middle

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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 (proverb), 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:pg22373:15:47
# text = One day, after having had his trouble and bother with her he went into the forest to look for berries and distract his grief, and he came to where there was a currant bush, and in the middle of that bush he saw a bottomless pit.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	currant	currant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | proverb's trouble |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 3 | **bother** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with thief | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | proverb |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | proverb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for berries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for berry=Theme |
| 6 | **distract** | infinitive | proverb *not said here* | proverb's grief |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer |
| 7 | **come** | past | proverb |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **see** | past | proverb | a bottomless pit |  | the middle of that bush |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pit=Stimulus |
| 9 | **trouble** |  | proverb |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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