--- title: So the old woman put her children to bed, called the cook and bade h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the old woman put her children to bed, called the cook and bade him take them whilst they were asleep into the wood, there kill them and extract their liver and their brains and get them ready for supper. Who acts: old woman, head, children. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/116/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/) / 116 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 116 So the old woman put her children to bed, called the cook and bade him take them whilst they were asleep into the wood, there kill them and extract their liver and their brains and get them ready for supper. **Who acts:** old woman, head, children · **What happens:** put, call, take, be, kill, extract · **To what, where:** hen, cook, children, wood, liver · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, head, children), 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:pg62509:7:116 # text = So the old woman put her children to bed, called the cook and bade him take them whilst they were asleep into the wood, there kill them and extract their liver and their brains and get them ready for supper. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 extract extract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | the old woman | hen | | | | to bed; children *obj* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Asset child=Goal | | 2 | **call** | participle | the old woman *not said here* | the cook and bade | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | present | head | children *= child* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | children *= child* | | | the wood | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** | present | | children *= child* | | there | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **extract** | infinitive | | children's liver and children's brains | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme | | 7 | **get** | infinitive | | children *= child* | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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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