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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 97 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 97 "Wait a bit," said the stepmother's daughter, "I'll wash and dress, and whiten myself and rouge myself, and then I'll marry you." **Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** wait, say, wash, dress, whiten, rouge · **To what, where:** bit, daughter, you · **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 (daughter), 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:pg22373:40:97 # text = "Wait a bit," said the stepmother's daughter, "I'll wash and dress, and whiten myself and rouge myself, and then I'll marry you." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 whiten whiten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 rouge rouge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a bit | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stepmother's daughter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wash** *in a quote* | future | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dress** *in a quote* | infinitive | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **whiten** *in a quote* | infinitive | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | | 6 | **rouge** *in a quote* | present | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | | 7 | **marry** *in a quote* | future | the stepmother's daughter *= daughter* | you | | | then | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/98/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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