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INTRODUCTORY, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/) / 129 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 129 After that he took a pair of tongs, caught hold of the lady by the feet, flung her into the furnace, and burnt her up; nothing was left of her but her bare bones. **Who acts:** money, feet · **What happens:** take, catch, fling, burnt up, leave, hold · **To what, where:** pair, woman, furnace, nothing, lady This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, feet), 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:pg22373:17:129 # text = After that he took a pair of tongs, caught hold of the lady by the feet, flung her into the furnace, and burnt her up; nothing was left of her but her bare bones. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tongs tong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 burnt burnt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | money | a pair of tongs | | | after that | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fling** | past | money *not said here* | woman | | the furnace | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into furnace=Destination | | 4 | **burnt up** | past | money *not said here* | woman | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme her=Attribute | | 6 | **hold** | | the feet | the lady | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient by=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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/130/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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