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title: Having moved into the new abode, the merchant's wife kept sending he… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Having moved into the new abode, the merchant's wife kept sending her hated Vasilissa into the forest on one pretence or another. Who acts: wife, sending. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 41

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Having moved into the new abode, the merchant's wife kept sending her hated Vasilissa into the forest on one pretence or another.

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**Who acts:** wife, sending · **What happens:** have, move, keep, send, hate · **To what, where:** new abode, wife, Vasilissa, forest

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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 (wife, sending), 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:pg22373:30:41
# text = Having moved into the new abode, the merchant's wife kept sending her hated Vasilissa into the forest on one pretence or another.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the merchant's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | participle | the merchant's wife *not said here* |  |  | the new abode |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into abode=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the merchant's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | gerund |  | wife |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **hate** | past | sending | Vasilissa |  | the forest on one pretence |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vasilissa=Stimulus |

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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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