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description: "Old man, go and get the sledge harnessed; put an armful of hay in it, and take some sheep-skin wraps. Who acts: Old man, sledge. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 166

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"Old man, go and get the sledge harnessed; put an armful of hay in it, and take some sheep-skin wraps.

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**Who acts:** Old man, sledge · **What happens:** go, get, harness, put, take · **To what, where:** sledge, armful, hay, skin wraps

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old man, sledge), 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:pg22373:39:166
# text = "Old man, go and get the sledge harnessed; put an armful of hay in it, and take some sheep-skin wraps.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	armful	armful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	wraps	wrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old man *not said here* | the sledge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **harness** *in a quote* | participle | the sledge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old man *not said here* | a armful of hay |  | hay |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent armful=Theme in it=Destination |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some skin wraps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrap=Theme |

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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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