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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 93 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 93 Whereupon, instead of asking for a number of things one after the other, she demands them all at once--"Stockings, garters, a petticoat, a dress, a comb, earrings, a mirror, soap, white paint and rouge, and everything which her stepsister had got." **Who acts:** stranger, stepsister · **What happens:** ask, demand, get · **To what, where:** Stockings, clothes · **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 (stranger, stepsister), 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:pg22373:40:93 # text = Whereupon, instead of asking for a number of things one after the other, she demands them all at once--"Stockings, garters, a petticoat, a dress, a comb, earrings, a mirror, soap, white paint and rouge, and everything which her stepsister had got." 1 Whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 5 mark _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 flat _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 demands demand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 all all ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Stockings stocking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 garters garter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 petticoat petticoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 earrings earring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 rouge rouge NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 ccomp _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 obj _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 stepsister stepsister NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 54 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 50 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | Stockings and garters and a petticoat and a dress and a comb and earrings and a mirror and soap and white paint and rouge | | | | for a number of things; whereupon *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | stranger | clothes | | | | once *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past · perfect | stranger's stepsister | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/94/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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