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description: Now her stepmother hated Marya, and used to send her out, with nothing to eat but a dry crust, to tend a cow all day. Who acts: stepmother. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 123

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Now her stepmother hated Marya, and used to send her out, with nothing to eat but a dry crust, to tend a cow all day.

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**Who acts:** stepmother · **What happens:** hate, use, send out, eat, tend · **To what, where:** Marya, stepmother, cow

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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:pg22373:35:123
# text = Now her stepmother hated Marya, and used to send her out, with nothing to eat but a dry crust, to tend a cow all day.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | stepmother's stepmother | Marya |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marya=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | participle | stepmother's stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send out** | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother *not said here* | stepmother |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tend** | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother *not said here* | a cow |  |  | day |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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