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description: Then he took to slashing at the sacks one after another with his whip, and the woman to howling at the pitch of her voice: Who acts: Ho, woman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 116

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Then he took to slashing at the sacks one after another with his whip, and the woman to howling at the pitch of her voice:

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**Who acts:** Ho, woman · **What happens:** take, slash, howl · **To what, where:** sacks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho, woman), 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:pg22373:15:116
# text = Then he took to slashing at the sacks one after another with his whip, and the woman to howling at the pitch of her voice:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	slashing	slash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ho |  |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slash** | gerund | Ho *not said here* | the sacks |  |  |  | with Ho's whip | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with whip=Instrument |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund | the woman |  |  |  |  | at the pitch of woman's voice | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at pitch=Stimulus |

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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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