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title: She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him to sleep;… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him to sleep; and thus Mark the Rich had never found the Lord for whom he was waiting. Who acts: woman, Rich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 102

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She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him to sleep; and thus Mark the Rich had never found the Lord for whom he was waiting.

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**Who acts:** woman, Rich · **What happens:** take, feed, give, drink, lay, sleep · **To what, where:** Rich, Mark

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Rich), 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:pg62509:8:102
# text = She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him to sleep; and thus Mark the Rich had never found the Lord for whom he was waiting.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Rich	Rich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | woman |  | Rich |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **feed** | past | woman *not said here* |  | Rich |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | past | woman *not said here* |  | Rich |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay** | past | woman *not said here* | Rich |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | Mark |  |  |  | the Lord *obj*; whom *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme lord=Attribute |
| 8 | **wait** | past · progressive | Rich |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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