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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 94

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When he went into the smithy in the morning, he never said "Good morrow" to him; instead of offering him a kindly word, he took the biggest hammer he had handy, and thumped the Demon with it three times right on the forehead, and then he would go to his work.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** go, not say, offer, take, have, thump · **To what, where:** smithy, Good morrow, son, word, man, biggest hammer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg22373:17:94
# text = When he went into the smithy in the morning, he never said "Good morrow" to him; instead of offering him a kindly word, he took the biggest hammer he had handy, and thumped the Demon with it three times right on the forehead, and then he would go to his work.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	handy	handy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	thumped	thump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	right	right	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the smithy | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into smithy=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | Good morrow | son |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent morrow=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **offer** | gerund | man *not said here* | a word | man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal word=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | man | the biggest hammer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | man | the biggest hammer *not said here* |  |  |  | handy *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient |
| 6 | **thump** | past | man *not said here* | the Demon |  | the forehead | time | with smithy | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent demon=Patient with it=Instrument on forehead=Location |
| 7 | **go** | would | man |  |  | man's work | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **work** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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