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title: Frost comes to have a look at his new guest, expecting "wise words"… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Frost comes to have a look at his new guest, expecting "wise words" from her too. Who acts: Frost. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, 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 6, sentence 24

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Frost comes to have a look at his new guest, expecting "wise words" from her too.

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**Who acts:** Frost · **What happens:** come, have, expect · **To what, where:** look, wise words

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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 (Frost), 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:pg22373:40:24
# text = Frost comes to have a look at his new guest, expecting "wise words" from her too.
1	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Frost |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Frost *not said here* | a look |  |  |  | at Taff's new guest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 3 | **expect** | gerund | Frost *not said here* | wise words |  |  |  | from Frost | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

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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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