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description: And next day "she presented that cook to the general, ordering him to serve the general honorably, as he had served her. Who acts: crone, general. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 137

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And next day "she presented that cook to the general, ordering him to serve the general honorably, as he had served her.

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**Who acts:** crone, general · **What happens:** present, order, serve · **To what, where:** cook, general, crone

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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 (crone, general), 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:pg22373:40:137
# text = And next day "she presented that cook to the general, ordering him to serve the general honorably, as he had served her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	honorably	honorably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** *in a quote* | past | crone | that cook | the general |  | day |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Theme to general=Recipient |
| 2 | **order** *in a quote* | gerund | crone *not said here* |  | general |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | crone *not said here* | the general |  |  |  | honorably *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Attribute |
| 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | past · perfect | general | crone |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |

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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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