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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 53

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Sometimes we visit the hut of the poverty-stricken peasant, more like a shed for cattle than a human habitation, with a mud-floor and a tattered roof, through which the smoke makes its devious way.

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**Who acts:** we, smoke · **What happens:** visit, tatter, make · **To what, where:** hut, devious way

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, smoke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:11:53
# text = Sometimes we visit the hut of the poverty-stricken peasant, more like a shed for cattle than a human habitation, with a mud-floor and a tattered roof, through which the smoke makes its devious way.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	tattered	tatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	devious	devious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | we | the hut of the stricken peasant |  |  |  | like a shed; for cattle than a human habitation with a mud floor and a tattered roof; sometimes *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **tatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | the smoke | floor's devious way |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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