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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 59

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A certain Gypsy who had a wife and seven children, and nothing to feed them with, was standing by a roadside lost in reflection, when Yegory the Brave came riding by.

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**Who acts:** certain Gypsy, Yegory · **What happens:** have, feed, stand, lose, come, ride by · **To what, where:** wife, roadside, reflection

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (certain Gypsy, Yegory), 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:pg22373:58:59
# text = A certain Gypsy who had a wife and seven children, and nothing to feed them with, was standing by a roadside lost in reflection, when Yegory the Brave came riding by.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
29	Yegory	Yegory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Brave	Brave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a certain Gypsy | a wife and seven children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | a certain Gypsy *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | a certain Gypsy |  |  |  |  | by a roadside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  | a roadside *not said here* |  | reflection |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in reflection=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | past | Yegory |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ride by** | gerund | Yegory *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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