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title: “The other cooks were jealous of your rewarding me, and so they have… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The other cooks were jealous of your rewarding me, and so they have deliberately contrived the plot.” Who acts: other cooks, your, TSARÉVICH. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 100

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“The other cooks were jealous of your rewarding me, and so they have deliberately contrived the plot.”

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**Who acts:** other cooks, your, TSARÉVICH · **What happens:** be, reward, contrive · **To what, where:** Tsarévich, plot

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other cooks, your, TSARÉVICH), 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:pg62509:17:100
# text = “The other cooks were jealous of your rewarding me, and so they have deliberately contrived the plot.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rewarding	reward	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the other cooks |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reward** *in a quote* | gerund | your |  | the Tsarévich *= tsarévich* |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **contrive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | TSARÉVICH *= tsarévich* | the plot |  |  |  | deliberately *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Result |

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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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