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description: Meanwhile Zachary sleeps, taking care, however, to be up and at work when the wolf returns to say that the big fishes are in the majority. Who acts: Zachary, wolf, big fishes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with its depen
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 86

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Meanwhile Zachary sleeps, taking care, however, to be up and at work when the wolf returns to say that the big fishes are in the majority.

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**Who acts:** Zachary, wolf, big fishes · **What happens:** sleep, take, be, return, say · **To what, where:** care, majority · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zachary, wolf, big fishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:5219`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:61:86
# text = Meanwhile Zachary sleeps, taking care, however, to be up and at work when the wolf returns to say that the big fishes are in the majority.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Zachary	Zachary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | Zachary |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Zachary *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Zachary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however, up *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | present | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the big fishes |  |  | the majority |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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