--- title: One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother s… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother said to the girl, "Go to your aunt, my sister, and ask her for a needle and thread to make you a shift." Who acts: father, stepmother. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHO --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/91/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 91 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 91 One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother said to the girl, "Go to your aunt, my sister, and ask her for a needle and thread to make you a shift." **Who acts:** father, stepmother · **What happens:** go away, say, go, ask, make · **To what, where:** girl, sister, stepmother, shift · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, stepmother), 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:pg22373:28:91 # text = One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother said to the girl, "Go to your aunt, my sister, and ask her for a needle and thread to make you a shift." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** | past | the father | | | | day | away, somewhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stepmother | | the girl | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my sister | | | | to your aunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | stepmother | | | for a needle and thread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a shift | the girl *= girl* | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary shift=Product | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/92/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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