--- title: For the first time in her life she was cordially received by her ste… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: For the first time in her life she was cordially received by her stepmother and stepsisters, who told her that from the moment she went away they hadn't had a spark of fire in the house. Who acts: stepmother, stepsisters, fire. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/16/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/) / 16 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 16 For the first time in her life she was cordially received by her stepmother and stepsisters, who told her that from the moment she went away they hadn't had a spark of fire in the house. **Who acts:** stepmother, stepsisters, fire · **What happens:** receive, tell, go away, not have, spark · **To what, where:** stepmother, moment, spark, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (stepmother, stepsisters, fire), 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:pg22373:31:16 # text = For the first time in her life she was cordially received by her stepmother and stepsisters, who told her that from the moment she went away they hadn't had a spark of fire in the house. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 cordially cordially ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stepsisters stepsister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past · passive | stepmother's stepmother and stepsisters | stepmother | | | time | cordially *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | stepsisters | | stepmother | | moment | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go away** | past | stepmother | the moment *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | stepsisters *= stepsister* | a spark of fire | | the house | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Patient | | 5 | **spark** | | fire | | | | | | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/17/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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