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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 104

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Well, they entered the cottage, and sat down to table--and there appeared from somewhere or other meat and drink and all sorts of snacks, everything in profusion.

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**Who acts:** feasts · **What happens:** enter, sit down, appear, sort · **To what, where:** cottage, other meat, snacks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasts), 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:pg22373:13:104
# text = Well, they entered the cottage, and sat down to table--and there appeared from somewhere or other meat and drink and all sorts of snacks, everything in profusion.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | feasts *= feast* | the cottage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | feasts *= feast* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | feasts *= feast* *not said here* | other meat and drink and all sorts of snacks |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | snacks |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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