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title: In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and to sew into the buttonholes all the seabirds. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 26

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In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and to sew into the buttonholes all the seabirds.

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**What happens:** bid, sew · **To what, where:** DANÍLO, buttons, seabirds, buttonholes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:4:26
# text = In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and to sew into the buttonholes all the seabirds.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	buttons	buttons	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	buttonholes	buttonhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	seabirds	seabird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | past · passive |  | DANÍLO *= danílo* |  | the buttons |  | mould *obj*; the wild beasts of the wood *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sew** | to-infinitive |  | all seabirds |  | the buttonholes |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent seabird=Material into buttonhole=Product |

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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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