--- title: The girl, following its instructions, gets in at one ear and out of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The girl, following its instructions, gets in at one ear and out of the other, and finds all her tasks performed, all her difficulties removed. Who acts: girl, tasks, difficulties, Skazkas. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Magic and Witchcraft., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/) / 92 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 92 The girl, following its instructions, gets in at one ear and out of the other, and finds all her tasks performed, all her difficulties removed. **Who acts:** girl, tasks, difficulties, Skazkas · **What happens:** follow, get in, find, perform, remove, instruct · **To what, where:** instructions, one ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, tasks, difficulties, Skazkas), 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:pg22373:45:92 # text = The girl, following its instructions, gets in at one ear and out of the other, and finds all her tasks performed, all her difficulties removed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 all all ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | Skazkas's instructions | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | | 2 | **get in** | present | the girl | | | one ear | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **find** | present | the girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **perform** | past | girl's tasks | | | | | all *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remove** | past | girl's difficulties | | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **instruct** | | Skazkas | | | | | | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **task** | | girl | | | | | | nom task «act 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/93/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/)