--- title: Exactly at twelve o'clock the blossom began to shake, flew from plac… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Exactly at twelve o'clock the blossom began to shake, flew from place to place, and then fell to the ground, and the beautiful maiden appeared, got herself things to eat and drink, and sat down to supper. Who acts: blossom, beautiful maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/161/) [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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/) / 161 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 161 Exactly at twelve o'clock the blossom began to shake, flew from place to place, and then fell to the ground, and the beautiful maiden appeared, got herself things to eat and drink, and sat down to supper. **Who acts:** blossom, beautiful maiden · **What happens:** begin, shake, fly, fall, appear, get · **To what, where:** place, blossom This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blossom, beautiful maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:12:161 # text = Exactly at twelve o'clock the blossom began to shake, flew from place to place, and then fell to the ground, and the beautiful maiden appeared, got herself things to eat and drink, and sat down to supper. 1 Exactly exactly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obj _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the blossom | | | | | exactly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the blossom *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fly** | past | the blossom *not said here* | | | place | | to place | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from place=Initial\_Location to place=Destination | | 4 | **fall** | past | | | | | then | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | | 5 | **appear** | past | the beautiful maiden | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** | past | the beautiful maiden *not said here* | blossom | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary thing=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the beautiful maiden *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **drink** | infinitive | the beautiful maiden *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sit down** | past | the blossom *not said here* | | | | | to supper | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/160/) - next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/162/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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