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description: When they had dined, 'Maiden, Maiden!' said the Head, 'take me off the bench!' Who acts: Maiden. 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 70

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When they had dined, 'Maiden, Maiden!' said the Head, 'take me off the bench!'

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**Who acts:** Maiden · **What happens:** dine, say, take · **To what, where:** me, bench · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Maiden), 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:pg22373:40:70
# text = When they had dined, 'Maiden, Maiden!' said the Head, 'take me off the bench!'
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dined	dine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dine** | past · perfect | Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maiden and Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | me |  | the bench |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme off bench=Initial\_Location |

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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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