--- title: So he gave her another rolling-pin, and told her to follow it: she w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he gave her another rolling-pin, and told her to follow it: she would hear cries of “Catch her: scotch her,” but she must not look round, for fear of being turned into stone. Who acts: youngest, many, cries. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/106/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/) / 106 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 106 So he gave her another rolling-pin, and told her to follow it: she would hear cries of “Catch her: scotch her,” but she must not look round, for fear of being turned into stone. **Who acts:** youngest, many, cries · **What happens:** give, tell, follow, hear, catch, not look round · **To what, where:** rolling pin, many, pin, cries, fear, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, many, cries), 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:pg62509:32:106 # text = So he gave her another rolling-pin, and told her to follow it: she would hear cries of “Catch her: scotch her,” but she must not look round, for fear of being turned into stone. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 6 rolling rolling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 scotch scotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 35 round round ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 parataxis _ _ 39 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | youngest *= young* | another rolling pin | many | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | youngest *= young* *not said here* | | many | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | youngest *= young* *not said here* | pin | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | would | many | cries | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 5 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive | cries *not said here* | many | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **not** **look round** | must | many | | | | | fear *parataxis*; round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **turn** | gerund · passive | | fear *not said here* | | stone | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory | 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. 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