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title: The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost, and doesn't let them have their own way. Who acts: old man, grandchildren. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 6

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The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost, and doesn't let them have their own way.

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**Who acts:** old man, grandchildren · **What happens:** frighten, not let, have · **To what, where:** grandchildren, own way

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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 (old man, grandchildren), 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:pg22373:40:6
# text = The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost, and doesn't let them have their own way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	frightens	frighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | present | the old man | man's grandchildren |  |  |  | with stories about Frost | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grandchild=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **let** | present · do-support |  | grandchildren *= grandchild* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | grandchildren *= grandchild* *not said here* | grandchildren's own way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |

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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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