--- title: [47] In the sixty-fourth story of Asbjoernsen's "Norske Folke-Eventy… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [47] In the sixty-fourth story of Asbjoernsen's "Norske Folke-Eventyr," (Ny Samling, 1871) the dispute between the husband and wife is about a cornfield--as to whether it should be reaped or shorn--and she tumbles into a pool while she is making clipping gestures "under her husband's nose." Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/) / 98 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 98 \[47\] In the sixty-fourth story of Asbjoernsen's "Norske Folke-Eventyr," (Ny Samling, 1871) the dispute between the husband and wife is about a cornfield--as to whether it should be reaped or shorn--and she tumbles into a pool while she is making clipping gestures "under her husband's nose." **Who acts:** dispute, wife · **What happens:** be, reap, shorn, tumble, make · **To what, where:** dispute, pool, clipping gestures, nose 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 (dispute, wife), 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:pg22373:18:98 # text = [47] In the sixty-fourth story of Asbjoernsen's "Norske Folke-Eventyr," (Ny Samling, 1871) the dispute between the husband and wife is about a cornfield--as to whether it should be reaped or shorn--and she tumbles into a pool while she is making clipping gestures "under her husband's nose." 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 47 47 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 In in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 11 Asbjoernsen Asbjoernsen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Norske Norske PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 15 Folke Folke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Eventyr Eventyr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Ny Ny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Samling Samling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 1871 1871 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dispute dispute NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 28 between between ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cornfield cornfield NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 reaped reap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 parataxis _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 shorn shorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 tumbles tumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 51 into into ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 while while SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ _ 58 clipping clipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 gestures gesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obj _ _ 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 under under ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 62 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 64 's 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the dispute between the husband and wife | | | | | about a cornfield | tree rules | | 2 | **reap** | should · passive | | dispute | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **shorn** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tumble** | present | wife | | | a pool | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **make** | present · progressive | wife | clipping gestures | | wife's husband's nose | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gesture=Product | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/99/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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