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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 110

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A woman, no longer young, wearing a white towel by way of head-dress, was moving about the cottage, going to and fro, supplying the stove with firewood, getting everything ready.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** wear, move, go, fro, supply, get · **To what, where:** white towel, stove, everything

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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 (woman), 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:pg22373:37:110
# text = A woman, no longer young, wearing a white towel by way of head-dress, was moving about the cottage, going to and fro, supplying the stove with firewood, getting everything ready.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
37	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
38	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | a white towel |  |  |  | by way of head dress | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent towel=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past · progressive | a woman |  |  |  |  | about the cottage | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about cottage=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **supply** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | the stove |  |  |  | with firewood | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent stove=Recipient with firewood=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |

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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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