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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 20

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At which terrible idea they both gave way to not unnatural tears.

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**Who acts:** horns · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** way, unnatural tears, terrible idea

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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 (horns), 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:pg22373:17:20
# text = At which terrible idea they both gave way to not unnatural tears.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | horns *= horn* | way | unnatural tears | terrible idea |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at idea=Asset to tear=Recipient |

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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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