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description: In vain did his master cause him to be beaten with iron clubs, he remained obstinately mute. Who acts: vain, master, devil. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, 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 7, sentence 23

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In vain did his master cause him to be beaten with iron clubs, he remained obstinately mute.

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**Who acts:** vain, master, devil · **What happens:** do, cause, beat, remain · **To what, where:** devil

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vain, master, devil), 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:pg22373:62:23
# text = In vain did his master cause him to be beaten with iron clubs, he remained obstinately mute.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	obstinately	obstinately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	mute	mute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | vain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | present | devil's master | devil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beat** | to-infinitive · passive | devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with iron clubs | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with club=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | past | devil |  |  |  |  | mute *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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