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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 8

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In the story of "Christ's Brother"\[436\] a young man--whose father, on his deathbed, had charged him not to forget the poor--goes to church on Easter Day, having provided himself with red eggs to give to the beggars with whom he should exchange the Pascal greeting.

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**Who acts:** young man, Brother · **What happens:** charge, not forget, go, provide, give, exchange · **To what, where:** Brother, story, poor, church, beggars, Pascal greeting

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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 (young man, Brother), 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:pg22373:57:8
# text = In the story of "Christ's Brother"[436] a young man--whose father, on his deathbed, had charged him not to forget the poor--goes to church on Easter Day, having provided himself with red eggs to give to the beggars with whom he should exchange the Pascal greeting.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	436	436	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	csubj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	aux	_	_
41	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	55	obl	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Pascal	Pascal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past · perfect | a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed |  | Brother | the story of Christ's Brother |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | to-infinitive | a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed *not said here* | the poor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | a young man and a young man and a young man's father and Brother's deathbed's father and Brother's deathbed *not said here* |  |  | church on Easter Day |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **provide** | gerund · perfect |  | Brother |  |  |  | with red eggs | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with egg=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive |  |  | the beggars |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beggar=Recipient |
| 6 | **exchange** | should | Brother | the Pascal greeting |  |  |  | with the beggars | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme with whom=Co-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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