--- title: For a long time she was afraid to acquaint them with her trouble, fo… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time she was afraid to acquaint them with her trouble, for a long time she held out, but at last her brothers talked her over and she told them everything without reserve. Who acts: Yaga, last brothers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yaga, last brothers), 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:pg22373:44:41 # text = For a long time she was afraid to acquaint them with her trouble, for a long time she held out, but at last her brothers talked her over and she told them everything without reserve. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 acquaint acquaint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 over over ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 33 obj _ _ 36 without without ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 reserve reserve NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Yaga | | | | time | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Yaga *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | time | with Yaga's trouble | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **hold out** | past | Yaga | a long time *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 4 | **talk over** | past | Yaga's last brothers | Yaga | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Yaga | everything | things *= thing* | | | without reserve | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic | | 6 | **trouble** | | Yaga | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/42/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/)