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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 141

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When she arrived she said to her daughter Alenka,\[209\] "Heat the stove as hot as you can, and bake Ivashko well, while I go and collect my friends for the feast."

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**Who acts:** Witch · **What happens:** arrive, say, heat, bake, go, collect · **To what, where:** Alenka, stove, Ivashko, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), 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:pg22373:31:141
# text = When she arrived she said to her daughter Alenka,[209] "Heat the stove as hot as you can, and bake Ivashko well, while I go and collect my friends for the feast."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Alenka	Alenka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	209	209	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	collect	collect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Witch |  | Alenka  Witch's daughter |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to alenka=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **heat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the stove |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient |
| 4 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Ivashko |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivashko=Product |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **collect** *in a quote* | infinitive | Witch *not said here* | my friends |  |  |  | for the feast | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |

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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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