--- title: And on her deathbed the merchant's wife called her little daughter t… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: And on her deathbed the merchant's wife called her little daughter to her, took out from under the bed-clothes a doll, gave it to her, and said, "Listen, Vasilissa, dear; remember and obey these last words of mine. Who acts: Listen. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/7/) [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/) / 7 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 7 And on her deathbed the merchant's wife called her little daughter to her, took out from under the bed-clothes a doll, gave it to her, and said, "Listen, Vasilissa, dear; remember and obey these last words of mine. **Who acts:** Listen · **What happens:** call, take out, give, say, remember, obey · **To what, where:** little daughter, child, deathbed, bed clothes, merchant, last words · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Listen), 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:pg22373:30:7 # text = And on her deathbed the merchant's wife called her little daughter to her, took out from under the bed-clothes a doll, gave it to her, and said, "Listen, Vasilissa, dear; remember and obey these last words of mine. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 deathbed deathbed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 16 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 doll doll NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Listen Listen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Vasilissa Vasilissa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 42 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 45 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 47 det _ _ 46 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | | child's little daughter | child | child's deathbed the merchant's wife | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 2 | **take out** | past | | | | the bed clothes and a doll | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from clothes=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **give** | past | | merchant | child | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Listen and Vasilissa | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **obey** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this last words of mine | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | | mine | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/8/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/)