--- title: But when he says to her, "Maiden, maiden, I am Frost the Red-Nosed,"… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But when he says to her, "Maiden, maiden, I am Frost the Red-Nosed," she replies "Welcome, Frost; doubtless God has sent you for my sinful soul." Who acts: neighbor, Frost, doubtless God. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/12/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 12 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 12 But when he says to her, "Maiden, maiden, I am Frost the Red-Nosed," she replies "Welcome, Frost; doubtless God has sent you for my sinful soul." **Who acts:** neighbor, Frost, doubtless God · **What happens:** say, be, nose, reply, send · **To what, where:** Frost, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, Frost, doubtless God), 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:pg22373:40:12 # text = But when he says to her, "Maiden, maiden, I am Frost the Red-Nosed," she replies "Welcome, Frost; doubtless God has sent you for my sinful soul." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Maiden Maiden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 Frost Frost PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Nosed nose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 replies reply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Welcome welcome INTJ UH _ 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 doubtless doubtless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sinful sinful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | neighbor | | Frost | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | neighbor | Frost | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **nose** *in a quote* | participle | | Frost *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | Frost | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect | doubtless God | | you | | | for my sinful soul | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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