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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 37

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And after the suitors had been packed off, she used to beat Vasilissa by way of wreaking her spite.

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**Who acts:** work, way · **What happens:** pack off, use, beat, wreak, spite · **To what, where:** suitors, Vasilissa, spite

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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 (work, way), 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:pg22373:30:37
# text = And after the suitors had been packed off, she used to beat Vasilissa by way of wreaking her spite.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wreaking	wreak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack off** | past · perfect · passive |  | the suitors |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | past | work |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **beat** | to-infinitive | work *not said here* | Vasilissa |  |  |  | by way | tree rules |
| 4 | **wreak** | gerund | way *not said here* | work's spite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spite** |  | work |  |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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