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title: She spread out the chequered table-cloths and put sugary food and ho… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She spread out the chequered table-cloths and put sugary food and honeyed drink for him to eat. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 6

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She spread out the chequered table-cloths and put sugary food and honeyed drink for him to eat.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** spread out, chequer, put, honey, eat · **To what, where:** chequered table cloths, sugary food, drink

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:16:6
# text = She spread out the chequered table-cloths and put sugary food and honeyed drink for him to eat.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	chequered	chequer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	honeyed	honey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | past | wife | the chequered table cloths |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **chequer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | sugary food |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal |
| 4 | **honey** | past | wife *not said here* | drink |  |  |  | for KNIGHT | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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