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title: In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hat… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 3

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In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** be, hate, work, gossip, chatter away · **To what, where:** girl, certain village

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (girl), 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:pg22373:53:3
# text = In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	slothful	slothful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	gossip	gossip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	chatter	chatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a girl |  | a certain village |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a girl |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hate** | participle | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **work** *not said to happen* | gerund | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **gossip** *speech: other* | would | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **chatter away** | infinitive | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like anything; away *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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