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description: The spittle answers for her in her absence, behaving as do, in other folk-tales, drops of blood, or rags dipped in blood, or apples, or eggs, or beans, or stone images, or wooden puppets. Who acts: spittle, girl. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapte
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 30

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The spittle answers for her in her absence, behaving as do, in other folk-tales, drops of blood, or rags dipped in blood, or apples, or eggs, or beans, or stone images, or wooden puppets.

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**Who acts:** spittle, girl · **What happens:** answer, behave, dip, absent · **To what, where:** absence, apples, other folk tales, rags

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spittle, girl), 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:pg22373:29:30
# text = The spittle answers for her in her absence, behaving as do, in other folk-tales, drops of blood, or rags dipped in blood, or apples, or eggs, or beans, or stone images, or wooden puppets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spittle	spittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	behaving	behave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the spittle |  |  | girl's absence |  | for girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **behave** | gerund | the spittle *not said here* | apples or eggs or beans |  | other folk tales and drops of blood or rags |  | as do; stone images or wooden puppets *obl* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as do=Attribute |
| 3 | **dip** | participle |  | rags *not said here* |  |  |  | in blood | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in blood=Attribute |
| 4 | **absent** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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