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title: The next day the old woman got supper ready, made ready to twist the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the old woman got supper ready, made ready to twist the hen’s neck and to roast it for supper with the head and the liver. Who acts: old woman, supper. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

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The next day the old woman got supper ready, made ready to twist the hen’s neck and to roast it for supper with the head and the liver.

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**Who acts:** old woman, supper · **What happens:** get, make, twist, roast · **To what, where:** supper, neck

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, supper), 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:pg62509:7:110
# text = The next day the old woman got supper ready, made ready to twist the hen’s neck and to roast it for supper with the head and the liver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	twist	twist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the old woman | supper |  |  | day | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | participle | supper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **twist** | to-infinitive | supper *not said here* | the hen's neck |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
| 4 | **roast** | to-infinitive | supper *not said here* | neck |  |  |  | for supper; with the head and the liver | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with head=Instrument |

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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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