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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 62

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A bad wife has come, and absolutely devoured us all, pinching us, and biting us--we're utterly worn out with it.

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**Who acts:** bad wife · **What happens:** come, devour, pinch, bite, wear out · **To what, where:** us, we

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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 (bad wife), 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:pg22373:15:62
# text = A bad wife has come, and absolutely devoured us all, pinching us, and biting us--we're utterly worn out with it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | a bad wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **devour** | participle | a bad wife *not said here* |  | us |  |  | absolutely *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 3 | **pinch** | gerund | a bad wife *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **bite** | gerund |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **wear out** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | with world; utterly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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