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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 13 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 13 Pleased by her "wise words," Frost throws a warm cloak over her, and afterwards presents her with "robes embroidered with silver and gold, and a chest containing rich dowry." **Who acts:** Frost, chest · **What happens:** please, throw, present, embroider, contain, dowry · **To what, where:** warm cloak, Frost, robes · **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 (Frost, chest), 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:pg22373:40:13 # text = Pleased by her "wise words," Frost throws a warm cloak over her, and afterwards presents her with "robes embroidered with silver and gold, and a chest containing rich dowry." 1 Pleased please VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 presents present VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 containing contain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 34 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dowry dowry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **please** | participle | | | | | | by Frost's wise words | tree rules | | 2 | **throw** | present | Frost | a warm cloak | | | | over stepdaughter | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over she=Destination | | 3 | **present** | present | Frost *not said here* | | Frost | | | with robes; afterwards *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with robe=Theme | | 4 | **embroider** *in a quote* | participle | | robes *not said here* | | | | with silver and gold | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme | | 5 | **contain** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **dowry** *in a quote* | | a chest | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | Frost | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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