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description: She is described as a lovely beggar woman, with a pale face, low stature, and hare’s blood in her veins, and her cheeks of poppy red, and she entices men to drink their sorrow away in the public-houses, and is frequently turned into a moral lesson against over-indulgence. Who acts: hag, cheeks. A se
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 116

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She is described as a lovely beggar woman, with a pale face, low stature, and hare’s blood in her veins, and her cheeks of poppy red, and she entices men to drink their sorrow away in the public-houses, and is frequently turned into a moral lesson against over-indulgence.

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**Who acts:** hag, cheeks · **What happens:** describe, entice, drink away, turn, sorrow · **To what, where:** hag, men, sorrow, public houses, moral lesson

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag, cheeks), 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:pg62509:40:116
# text = She is described as a lovely beggar woman, with a pale face, low stature, and hare’s blood in her veins, and her cheeks of poppy red, and she entices men to drink their sorrow away in the public-houses, and is frequently turned into a moral lesson against over-indulgence.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	poppy	poppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	entices	entice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	against	against	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	over-indulgence	over-indulgence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | hag |  |  |  | as a lovely beggar woman; hag's cheeks of poppy red *obl*; a pale face and low stature and hare's blood in hag's veins *conj* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as woman=Attribute |
| 2 | **entice** | present | hag | men |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drink away** | to-infinitive | hag *not said here* | cheeks's sorrow |  | the public houses |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present · passive |  |  |  | a moral lesson against over-indulgence |  | frequently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into lesson=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | cheeks *= cheek* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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