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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 110

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Ah, mammie, save me, save me!" cried the girl, and her mother slammed the door and barred the entrance as quickly as possible.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** save, cry, slam, bar · **To what, where:** mammie, me, girl, door, entrance · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg22373:25:110
# text = Ah, mammie, save me, save me!" cried the girl, and her mother slammed the door and barred the entrance as quickly as possible.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mammie	mammie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slammed	slam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	barred	bar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | infinitive |  | mammie |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slam** *in a quote* | past | Mother's mother | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **bar** *in a quote* | past | Mother's mother *not said here* | the entrance |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=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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