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description: After his wife's death, the merchant mourned for her a befitting time, and then began to consider about marrying again. Who acts: merchant, wife. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 13

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After his wife's death, the merchant mourned for her a befitting time, and then began to consider about marrying again.

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**Who acts:** merchant, wife · **What happens:** mourn, befit, begin, consider, marry, die

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, wife), 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:pg22373:30:13
# text = After his wife's death, the merchant mourned for her a befitting time, and then began to consider about marrying again.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	advcl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | the merchant |  |  |  | after VASILISSA's wife's death; time | for wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for she=Attribute |
| 2 | **befit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **consider** | to-infinitive | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **marry** | gerund | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **die** |  | VASILISSA's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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