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description: Page 32--bare amended to bore--"Well, the mistress bore a son ..." Who acts: you, mistress. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, 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 8, sentence 117

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Page 32--bare amended to bore--"Well, the mistress bore a son ..."

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**Who acts:** you, mistress · **What happens:** amend, bore, bear · **To what, where:** son

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mistress), 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:pg22373:63:117
# text = Page 32--bare amended to bore--"Well, the mistress bore a son ..."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bore	bore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bore** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | past | the mistress | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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