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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/) / 113 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 113 Two of the three daughters of a poor widow look into a forbidden chamber, find it "full of dead gentlewomen," get stained knee-deep in blood, and refuse to give a drop of milk to a cat which offers its services. **Who acts:** Two, cat, knee · **What happens:** look, forbid, find, get, stain, refuse · **To what, where:** forbidden chamber, chamber, drop, cat, services This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, cat, knee), 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:pg22373:23:113 # text = Two of the three daughters of a poor widow look into a forbidden chamber, find it "full of dead gentlewomen," get stained knee-deep in blood, and refuse to give a drop of milk to a cat which offers its services. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 10 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 gentlewomen gentlewoman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 26 stained stain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ _ 27 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 refuse refuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | infinitive | Two | | | a forbidden chamber | | of the three daughters; of a poor widow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of daughter=Theme | | 2 | **forbid** | participle | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | Two *not said here* | chamber | | | | full *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | Two *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **stain** | participle | Two *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **refuse** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | | a drop of milk | a cat | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drop=Theme to cat=Recipient | | 8 | **offer** | present | a cat | knee's services | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme | | 9 | **service** | | knee | | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/114/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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