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title: The mother believed her and was extremely glad, and at her death bad… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother believed her and was extremely glad, and at her death bade her son marry only the woman whom the ring fitted. Who acts: mother, son. 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 129

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The mother believed her and was extremely glad, and at her death bade her son marry only the woman whom the ring fitted.

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**Who acts:** mother, son · **What happens:** believe, be, marry, fit · **To what, where:** witch, woman, death bade

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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 (mother, son), 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:pg62509:8:129
# text = The mother believed her and was extremely glad, and at her death bade her son marry only the woman whom the ring fitted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the mother | witch |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | extremely, glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | witch's son | the woman |  | witch's death bade |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 4 | **fit** | participle · passive |  | the woman |  |  |  | the ring *nsubj* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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