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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 29

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"Be in the place of a sister to us, live here and keep house for us; otherwise we poor sufferers will have no one to cook our meals or wash our shirts.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** be, live, keep, have, cook, wash · **To what, where:** place, house, one, meals, shirts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg22373:44:29
# text = "Be in the place of a sister to us, live here and keep house for us; otherwise we poor sufferers will have no one to cook our meals or wash our shirts.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the place |  | of a sister to us | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | house |  |  |  | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | future | we | no one |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **cook** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our meals |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 6 | **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | our shirts |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient |

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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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