--- title: She took off her head, lathered it with soap, washed it with clean w… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: She took off her head, lathered it with soap, washed it with clean water, combed its hair, plaited its long back braid, and then put it back again in its proper place. Who acts: princess. 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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 (princess), 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:pg22373:46:144 # text = She took off her head, lathered it with soap, washed it with clean water, combed its hair, plaited its long back braid, and then put it back again in its proper place. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 lathered lather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 washed wash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 combed comb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 plaited plait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 braid braid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | princess | princess's head | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **lather** | past | princess *not said here* | head | | | | with soap | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument | | 3 | **wash** | past | princess *not said here* | head | | | | with clean water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | | 4 | **comb** | past | princess *not said here* | water's hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 5 | **plait** | participle | princess *not said here* | hair's long back braid | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Patient | | 6 | **put back** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | braid | | hair's proper place | then; again | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination | 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 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/145/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/)