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description: [186] All the marriageable young men in the town sent to make an offer to Vasilissa; at her stepmother's daughters not a soul would so much as look. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 34

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\[186\] All the marriageable young men in the town sent to make an offer to Vasilissa; at her stepmother's daughters not a soul would so much as look.

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**What happens:** send, make · **To what, where:** marriageable young men, offer, Vasilissa

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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: 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:pg22373:30:34
# text = [186] All the marriageable young men in the town sent to make an offer to Vasilissa; at her stepmother's daughters not a soul would so much as look.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	186	186	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  | all marriageable young men in the town *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a offer | Vasilissa |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offer=Product |

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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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