--- title: After a time the girls all came out, and began to put on their shift… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: After a time the girls all came out, and began to put on their shifts, and the old woman's daughter wanted to put on hers, but there was the snake lying on it. Who acts: girls, daughter, snake. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/95/) [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 II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) / 95 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 95 After a time the girls all came out, and began to put on their shifts, and the old woman's daughter wanted to put on hers, but there was the snake lying on it. **Who acts:** girls, daughter, snake · **What happens:** come out, begin, put, want, be, lie · **To what, where:** shifts 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 (girls, daughter, snake), 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:pg22373:25:95 # text = After a time the girls all came out, and began to put on their shifts, and the old woman's daughter wanted to put on hers, but there was the snake lying on it. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 shifts shift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 32 expl _ _ 32 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | the girls | | | | time | all, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **begin** | past | the girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | | | girls's shifts | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shift=Destination | | 4 | **want** | past | the old woman's daughter | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old woman's daughter *not said here* | | | | | on daughter | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on her=Destination | | 6 | **be** | past | the snake | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lie** | gerund | the snake *not said here* | | | | | on Snake | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | | 8 | **shift** | | girls *= girl* | | | | | | nom shift «event 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/96/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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