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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 24

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In one place, a cow is being hoisted on to a roof in order that it may eat the grass growing thereon; in another a horse is being inserted into its collar by sheer force; in a third, a woman is fetching milk from the cellar, a spoonful at a time.

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**Who acts:** order, grass, sheer force, woman · **What happens:** hoist, eat, grow, insert, fetch · **To what, where:** cow, one place, grass, collar, milk, cellar

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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 (order, grass, sheer force, 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:pg22373:17:24
# text = In one place, a cow is being hoisted on to a roof in order that it may eat the grass growing thereon; in another a horse is being inserted into its collar by sheer force; in a third, a woman is fetching milk from the cellar, a spoonful at a time.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hoisted	hoist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	conj	_	_
47	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hoist** | present · passive |  | a cow |  | one place |  | on a roof in order; in a third and a spoonful at a time | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination on roof=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | may | order | the grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **insert** | present · passive | sheer force |  |  | order's collar |  | in another horse | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in horse=Destination |
| 5 | **fetch** | present · progressive | a woman | milk |  | the cellar |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from cellar=Source |

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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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