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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 95

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In a skazka from the Orenburg Government, a lad named Vanka \[Jack\] is set to watch his father's turnip-field by night.

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**What happens:** name, set, watch · **To what, where:** lad, skazka, turnip field

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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: 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:pg22373:61:95
# text = In a skazka from the Orenburg Government, a lad named Vanka [Jack] is set to watch his father's turnip-field by night.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Orenburg	Orenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Vanka	Vanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | present · passive |  | a lad |  | a skazka from the Orenburg Government |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  | Jack's father's turnip field |  |  | night |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=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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