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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 27

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First he finds carpenters attempting to stretch a beam which is not long enough, and earns their gratitude by showing them how to add a piece to it.

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**Who acts:** hero, carpenters, beam · **What happens:** find, attempt, stretch, not be, earn, show · **To what, where:** carpenters, beam, gratitude, piece

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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 (hero, carpenters, beam), 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:pg22373:17:27
# text = First he finds carpenters attempting to stretch a beam which is not long enough, and earns their gratitude by showing them how to add a piece to it.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | hero | carpenters |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpenter=Topic |
| 2 | **attempt** | gerund | carpenters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stretch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | carpenters *not said here* | a beam |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beam=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | a beam |  |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **earn** | present | hero *not said here* | carpenters's gratitude |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | gerund | hero *not said here* | carpenters *= carpenter* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 7 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | hero *not said here* | a piece | piece |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to it=Co-Patient |

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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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