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title: Even then her stepmother was never satisfied, but would grumble away… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even then her stepmother was never satisfied, but would grumble away at Marfa, exclaiming:-- Who acts: stepmother. 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 clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 38

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Even then her stepmother was never satisfied, but would grumble away at Marfa, exclaiming:--

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**Who acts:** stepmother · **What happens:** not be, grumble away, exclaim · **To what, where:** Marfa

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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 (stepmother), 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:pg22373:39:38
# text = Even then her stepmother was never satisfied, but would grumble away at Marfa, exclaiming:--
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	grumble	grumble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Marfa	Marfa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | girl's stepmother |  |  |  | then | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble away** *speech: other* | would |  |  |  | Marfa |  | away *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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