--- title: But after she had borne him a son, she went to pay a visit to her fa… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But after she had borne him a son, she went to pay a visit to her father, and her stepmother availed herself of the opportunity to turn her into a goose, and to set her own two-eyed daughter in her place. Who acts: turn, stepmother. 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/pg22373/35/134/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 134 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 134 But after she had borne him a son, she went to pay a visit to her father, and her stepmother availed herself of the opportunity to turn her into a goose, and to set her own two-eyed daughter in her place. **Who acts:** turn, stepmother · **What happens:** bear, go, pay, avail, turn, set · **To what, where:** turn, visit, own eyed daughter, place 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 (turn, stepmother), 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:pg22373:35:134 # text = But after she had borne him a son, she went to pay a visit to her father, and her stepmother availed herself of the opportunity to turn her into a goose, and to set her own two-eyed daughter in her place. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 availed avail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 39 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive | | turn | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | turn | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | turn *not said here* | a visit | | | | to turn's father | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | | 4 | **avail** | past | turn's stepmother | turn | | | | of the opportunity | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | to-infinitive | turn's stepmother *not said here* | turn | | | | into a goose *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into goose=Result | | 6 | **set** | to-infinitive | turn's stepmother *not said here* | turn's own eyed daughter | | turn's place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in place=Destination | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/135/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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