--- title: Thus in Little-Russia she assures untimely spinners that it is not f… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus in Little-Russia she assures untimely spinners that it is not flax they are spinning, but her hair, and in proof of this she shows them her dishevelled _kosa_, or long back plait. Who acts: St., Spirit, spinners. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/158/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 158 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 158 Thus in Little-Russia she assures untimely spinners that it is not flax they are spinning, but her hair, and in proof of this she shows them her dishevelled \_kosa\_, or long back plait. **Who acts:** St., Spirit, spinners · **What happens:** assure, not be, spin, show, dishevell, proof · **To what, where:** untimely spinners, flax, spinners, proof, kosa, this · **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 (St., Spirit, spinners), 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:pg22373:37:158 # text = Thus in Little-Russia she assures untimely spinners that it is not flax they are spinning, but her hair, and in proof of this she shows them her dishevelled _kosa_, or long back plait. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 assures assure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 untimely untimely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 spinners spinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 flax flax NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 dishevelled dishevell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 kosa kosa NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 plait plait NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **assure** | present | St. | untimely spinners | | | | St.'s hair *obl*; thus *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spinner=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Spirit | flax | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spin** | present · progressive | spinners *= spinner* | flax *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | St. | spinners *= spinner* | | proof of this | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **dishevell** | past | | kosa | | | | long back plait *obl* | tree rules | | 6 | **proof** | | | this | | | | | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/157/) - next →: [Chapter III. 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