--- title: She had only to take her ease in a shady place and pluck flowers, an… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: She had only to take her ease in a shady place and pluck flowers, and yet all her work was done in good time; the beds were weeded, and the pails were filled, and the cabbages were watered, and the stove was heated. Who acts: feed. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/29/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/) / 29 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 29 She had only to take her ease in a shady place and pluck flowers, and yet all her work was done in good time; the beds were weeded, and the pails were filled, and the cabbages were watered, and the stove was heated. **Who acts:** feed · **What happens:** have, take, do, weed, fill, water · **To what, where:** ease, shady place, work, beds, pails, cabbages 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 (feed), 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:pg22373:30:29 # text = She had only to take her ease in a shady place and pluck flowers, and yet all her work was done in good time; the beds were weeded, and the pails were filled, and the cabbages were watered, and the stove was heated. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 pluck pluck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 weeded weed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pails pail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 cabbages cabbage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 watered water VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | feed | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | feed *not said here* | feed's ease | | a shady place and pluck flowers | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ease=Value in place=Location | | 3 | **do** | past · passive | | feed's work | | | time | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **weed** | past · passive | | the beds | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 5 | **fill** | past · passive | | the pails | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **water** | past · passive | | the cabbages | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 7 | **heat** | past · passive | | the stove | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **work** | | feed | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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