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title: In another variant[214] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maid… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In another variant[214] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids in search of her boy. Who acts: bereaved mother. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 62

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In another variant\[214\] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids in search of her boy.

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**Who acts:** bereaved mother · **What happens:** bereave, send, search · **To what, where:** three servant maids, variant, boy

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bereaved mother), 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:pg22373:32:62
# text = In another variant[214] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids in search of her boy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	214	214	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bereaved	bereave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bereave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | present | the bereaved mother | three servant maids |  | another variant |  | in search of mother's boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme in variant=Destination |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | mother's boy |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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