--- title: Then the mistress looked on, and as soon as she saw this she began b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the mistress looked on, and as soon as she saw this she began beating the dog, beat it hard, very hard, and saying all the time, “Give the cat no beef, nor bread.” Who acts: mistress, party. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/) / 99 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 99 Then the mistress looked on, and as soon as she saw this she began beating the dog, beat it hard, very hard, and saying all the time, “Give the cat no beef, nor bread.” **Who acts:** mistress, party · **What happens:** look on, see, begin, beat, say, give · **To what, where:** bread, this, dog, beef, cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:3:99 # text = Then the mistress looked on, and as soon as she saw this she began beating the dog, beat it hard, very hard, and saying all the time, “Give the cat no beef, nor bread.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 obj _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 beef beef NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 41 cc _ _ 41 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look on** | past | the mistress | bread | | | then | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | party | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 3 | **begin** | past | party | | | | | hard, soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **beat** | gerund | party *not said here* | the dog | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | | 5 | **beat** | infinitive | party *not said here* | DOG | | | | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | no beef | the cat | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient beef=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/100/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/)