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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 138

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The sharp-witted ones got plenty of all sorts of good things, but nothing fell to the share of the Simpleton but one ox--and that such a skinny one!

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**Who acts:** witted ones, nothing · **What happens:** get, fall, sort, share · **To what, where:** plenty, skinny one, good things, Simpleton

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witted ones, nothing), 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:pg22373:16:138
# text = The sharp-witted ones got plenty of all sorts of good things, but nothing fell to the share of the Simpleton but one ox--and that such a skinny one!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	witted	witted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	skinny	skinny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the witted ones | plenty of all sorts of good things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | nothing | such skinny one |  |  |  | to the share of the Simpleton but one ox | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to share=Theme |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | good things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **share** |  |  | the Simpleton |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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