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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 55

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Then he makes some excuse for not having got any supper ready for them, but says nothing about what has really happened to him.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** make, not get, say, happen · **To what, where:** excuse, supper, nothing, rest · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg22373:29:55
# text = Then he makes some excuse for not having got any supper ready for them, but says nothing about what has really happened to him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | rest | some excuse |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Product |
| 2 | **not** **get** | gerund · perfect | rest *not said here* | any supper |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | rest *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | present · perfect |  |  | rest |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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