--- title: Before daybreak the girl would feed the cattle and give them to drin… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Before daybreak the girl would feed the cattle and give them to drink, fetch wood and water indoors, light the fire in the stove, give the room a wash, mend the dresses, and set everything in order. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/37/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/) / 37 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 37 Before daybreak the girl would feed the cattle and give them to drink, fetch wood and water indoors, light the fire in the stove, give the room a wash, mend the dresses, and set everything in order. **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** feed, give, drink, fetch, light, mend · **To what, where:** cattle, wife, wood, fire, stove, room 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 (girl), 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:pg22373:39:37 # text = Before daybreak the girl would feed the cattle and give them to drink, fetch wood and water indoors, light the fire in the stove, give the room a wash, mend the dresses, and set everything in order. 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 mend mend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 40 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 39 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | would | the girl | | the cattle | | before daybreak | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | | wife | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | wood and water | | | | indoors *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | | 5 | **light** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | the fire | | the stove | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | the room | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent room=Recipient wash=Theme | | 7 | **mend** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* | the dresses | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **set** | past | the girl *not said here* | everything | | order | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in order=Destination | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/38/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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