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description: Next morning the old man brought in the twelve fair maidens--one just like another--and ordered the youth to choose his bride. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 17

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Next morning the old man brought in the twelve fair maidens--one just like another--and ordered the youth to choose his bride.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** bring, order, choose · **To what, where:** old man, twelve fair maidens, youth, bride

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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 (old man), 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:pg22373:61:17
# text = Next morning the old man brought in the twelve fair maidens--one just like another--and ordered the youth to choose his bride.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | participle |  | the old man *not said here* |  | the twelve fair maidens |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **order** | past | the old man | the youth |  |  | morning |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | man's bride |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |

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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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