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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 101 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 101 She had been left alone for a long time, and after midnight, when the first cock crew, she began to think about going to bed, only she would have liked to finish spinning what she had in hand. " **Who acts:** crew · **What happens:** leave, begin, think, go, like, finish · **To what, where:** fiction, first cock crew, bed, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crew), 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:pg22373:37:101 # text = She had been left alone for a long time, and after midnight, when the first cock crew, she began to think about going to bed, only she would have liked to finish spinning what she had in hand. " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 18 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 about about SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 ccomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | | fiction | | | time | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | crew | the first cock crew *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | crew *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **like** | would · perfect | crew | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **finish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | crew *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **spin** | gerund | crew *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 8 | **have** | past | crew | | | hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/102/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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