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title: At last she found an old wise woman, who gave her a poison and bade… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she found an old wise woman, who gave her a poison and bade her put it under the threshold just when her stepson was coming in. Who acts: stepmother, old wise woman, poison, stepson. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 34

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At last she found an old wise woman, who gave her a poison and bade her put it under the threshold just when her stepson was coming in.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, old wise woman, poison, stepson · **What happens:** find, give, put, come in · **To what, where:** old wise woman, last, stepmother, bade, threshold

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, old wise woman, poison, stepson), 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:pg62509:28:34
# text = At last she found an old wise woman, who gave her a poison and bade her put it under the threshold just when her stepson was coming in.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	stepson	stepson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | stepmother | a old wise woman |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **give** | past | a old wise woman |  | stepmother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | a poison and bade | bade |  | the threshold |  | stepmother *nsubj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under threshold=Destination |
| 4 | **come in** | past · progressive | stepmother's stepson |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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