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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 45

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Then the Spider\[67\] appeared, the hero bold, who, with waving arms, weaved webs around the highways and byways in which the gnats and flies were most to be found.

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**Who acts:** Spider · **What happens:** appear, wave, be, find · **To what, where:** hero bold

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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 (Spider), 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:pg22373:17:45
# text = Then the Spider[67] appeared, the hero bold, who, with waving arms, weaved webs around the highways and byways in which the gnats and flies were most to be found.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	weaved	weaved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	byways	byway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	29	det	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	appos	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the Spider | the hero bold |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bold=Theme |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | most *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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