--- title: "There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit." Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/127/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) / 127 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 127 "There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit." **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** live, go, pay · **To what, where:** second sister, sister This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (we), 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:pg22373:26:127 # text = "There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | | my second sister | | there | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sister=Location | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | | sister | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/128/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/)