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INTRODUCTORY, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/) / 12 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 12 When the lady heard that the Smith had only turned her husband into a cinder, instead of making him young, she was tremendously angry, and she called together her trusty servants, and ordered them to drag him to the gallows. **Who acts:** lady, Smith · **What happens:** hear, turn, make, be, call together, order · **To what, where:** husband, cinder, trusty servants, servants, gallows · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Smith), 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:pg22373:18:12 # text = When the lady heard that the Smith had only turned her husband into a cinder, instead of making him young, she was tremendously angry, and she called together her trusty servants, and ordered them to drag him to the gallows. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Smith Smith PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cinder cinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 tremendously tremendously ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 trusty trusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 gallows gallows NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the lady | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | past · perfect | the Smith | Smith's husband | | a cinder | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent husband=Theme into cinder=Trajectory | | 3 | **make** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | husband | | | | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 4 | **is** | past | Smith | | | | | angry, tremendously *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **call together** *speech: assert* | past | Smith | Smith's trusty servants | | | | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | | 6 | **order** | past | | | servants *= servant* | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **drag** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | husband | | the gallows | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=Destination | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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