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title: Never once did he shave, have his hair cut, wipe his nose, or change… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never once did he shave, have his hair cut, wipe his nose, or change his clothes." Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 86

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Never once did he shave, have his hair cut, wipe his nose, or change his clothes."

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** shave, have, wipe, change · **To what, where:** hair cut, nose, clothes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg22373:60:86
# text = Never once did he shave, have his hair cut, wipe his nose, or change his clothes."
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | past · do-support | soldier |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | soldier *not said here* | soldier's hair cut |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |
| 3 | **wipe** | infinitive |  | soldier's nose |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive |  | soldier's clothes |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |

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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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