--- title: She was starting to wash herself, busk herself, and make ready for t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She was starting to wash herself, busk herself, and make ready for the feast, and that moment Alyósha Popóvich seized her little chain, ran up into the palace, and showed it to Danílo the Unfortunate. Who acts: Mocker, moment. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mocker, moment), 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:pg62509:4:101 # text = She was starting to wash herself, busk herself, and make ready for the feast, and that moment Alyósha Popóvich seized her little chain, ran up into the palace, and showed it to Danílo the Unfortunate. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 busk busk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 Alyósha Alyósha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 22 Popóvich Popóvich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Danílo Danílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Unfortunate unfortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past · progressive | Mocker | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **wash** | to-infinitive | Mocker *not said here* | Mocker | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 3 | **busk** | infinitive | Mocker *not said here* | Mocker | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | Mocker *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **seize** | past | that moment | Mocker's little chain | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | | 6 | **run up** | past | that moment *not said here* | | | | | into the palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result | | 7 | **show** | past | that moment *not said here* | chain | Danílo | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to danílo=Recipient | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/102/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/)