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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 188

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They nourished us, you see, when we were poor; but now, when they're no longer necessary to us, we've quite forgotten them!"

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**Who acts:** thanks, you, we · **What happens:** nourish, see, be, forget · **To what, where:** us, thanks

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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 (thanks, you, we), 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:pg22373:36:188
# text = They nourished us, you see, when we were poor; but now, when they're no longer necessary to us, we've quite forgotten them!"
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nourish** | past | thanks | us |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | thanks |  | us |  | now | long, necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | present · perfect | we | thanks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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