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title: Having received it, she cuts off her hair, and lets the murderer dro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Having received it, she cuts off her hair, and lets the murderer drop and be drowned. Who acts: spirit. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 22

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Having received it, she cuts off her hair, and lets the murderer drop and be drowned.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** have, receive, cut off, let, drown · **To what, where:** cup, hair, murderer drop

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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:pg22373:42:22
# text = Having received it, she cuts off her hair, and lets the murderer drop and be drowned.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past | spirit *not said here* | cup |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **cut off** | present | spirit | spirit's hair |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality |
| 4 | **let** | present | spirit *not said here* | the murderer drop |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |
| 5 | **drown** | infinitive · passive | spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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