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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 203

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The Diachok uttered such an "Oh!"--then he flung himself on the gold, and began seizing handfuls of it and stuffing them into his pocket.

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**Who acts:** Diachok · **What happens:** utter, fling, begin, seize, stuff · **To what, where:** an, Diachok, gold, handfuls, pocket

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diachok), 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:pg22373:16:203
# text = The Diachok uttered such an "Oh!"--then he flung himself on the gold, and began seizing handfuls of it and stuffing them into his pocket.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stuffing	stuff	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the Diachok | an |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent a=Topic |
| 2 | **fling** | past | Diachok | Diachok |  | the gold | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on gold=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Diachok *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seize** | gerund | Diachok *not said here* | handfuls of gold |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
| 5 | **stuff** | gerund | Diachok *not said here* | handfuls *= handful* |  | Diachok's pocket |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pocket=Destination |

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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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