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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 6

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Polish housewives, for instance, think it imprudent to allow their hens to sit on an uneven number of eggs.

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**Who acts:** Polish housewives, hens · **What happens:** think, allow, sit · **To what, where:** hens, uneven number

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polish housewives, hens), 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:pg22373:41:6
# text = Polish housewives, for instance, think it imprudent to allow their hens to sit on an uneven number of eggs.
1	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	housewives	housewife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	imprudent	imprudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Polish housewives and instance |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Polish housewives and instance *not said here* | housewives's hens |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer hen=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | housewives's hens *not said here* |  |  | a uneven number of eggs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on number=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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