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title: But he had forgotten to take away his gloves, so he went back to fet… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he had forgotten to take away his gloves, so he went back to fetch them, telling his brothers to wait for him meanwhile. Who acts: IVAN. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 93

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But he had forgotten to take away his gloves, so he went back to fetch them, telling his brothers to wait for him meanwhile.

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**Who acts:** IVAN · **What happens:** forget, not take away, go back, fetch, tell, wait · **To what, where:** gloves, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IVAN), 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:pg22373:19:93
# text = But he had forgotten to take away his gloves, so he went back to fetch them, telling his brothers to wait for him meanwhile.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | IVAN |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **take away** | to-infinitive | IVAN *not said here* | IVAN's gloves |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | past | IVAN |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | IVAN *not said here* | gloves *= glove* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | IVAN *not said here* |  | IVAN's brothers |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | IVAN *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for IVAN; meanwhile *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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