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LEGENDS, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 140 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 140 Feeling hungry one day, she scraped out of the pots which had been given her to wash some remains of rice boiled in milk, set the food on one side, and then went to bathe. **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** feel, scrape, give, wash, boil, set · **To what, where:** pots, wife, remains, rice, food, one side This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:61:140 # text = Feeling hungry one day, she scraped out of the pots which had been given her to wash some remains of rice boiled in milk, set the food on one side, and then went to bathe. 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 scraped scrape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | | day | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **scrape** | past | wife | | | the pots | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | | the pots | wife | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | | 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive | | some remains of rice | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient | | 5 | **boil** | participle | | rice *not said here* | | | | in milk | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in milk=Instrument | | 6 | **set** | infinitive | | the food | | one side | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme on side=Destination | | 7 | **go** | past | wife *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/141/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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