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title: After finding out from his wife where she has taken up her quarters… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: After finding out from his wife where she has taken up her quarters for the night, he says: Who acts: moujik, wife. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 163

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After finding out from his wife where she has taken up her quarters for the night, he says:

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**Who acts:** moujik, wife · **What happens:** find out, take up, say · **To what, where:** quarters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, wife), 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:pg22373:36:163
# text = After finding out from his wife where she has taken up her quarters for the night, he says:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | gerund | moujik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from moujik's wife | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from wife=Source |
| 2 | **take up** | present · perfect | wife | wife's quarters |  |  | night |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | moujik |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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