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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 26

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Thus the story of "Beer and Corn"\[439\] tells how a certain man was so poor that when the rest of the peasants were brewing beer, and making other preparations to celebrate an approaching feast of the Church, he found his cupboard perfectly bare.

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**Who acts:** story, certain man, rest · **What happens:** tell, be, brew, make, celebrate, approach · **To what, where:** beer, other preparations, approaching feast, cupboard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, certain man, rest), 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:pg22373:57:26
# text = Thus the story of "Beer and Corn"[439] tells how a certain man was so poor that when the rest of the peasants were brewing beer, and making other preparations to celebrate an approaching feast of the Church, he found his cupboard perfectly bare.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	439	439	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	brewing	brew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	amod	_	_
40	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the story of Beer and Corn |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | a certain man |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **brew** | past · progressive | the rest of the peasants | beer |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the rest of the peasants *not said here* | other preparations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product |
| 5 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | the rest of the peasants *not said here* | a approaching feast of the Church |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 6 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past | rest | rest's cupboard |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupboard=Topic |

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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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