--- title: A ghastly Gadfly, coming that way, stumbled straight into the Spider… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: A ghastly Gadfly, coming that way, stumbled straight into the Spider's snare. Who acts: ghastly Gadfly, Spider. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/) / 46 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 46 A ghastly Gadfly, coming that way, stumbled straight into the Spider's snare. **Who acts:** ghastly Gadfly, Spider · **What happens:** come, stumble, snare · **To what, where:** way, ghastly Gadfly, snare 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 (ghastly Gadfly, Spider), 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:pg22373:17:46 # text = A ghastly Gadfly, coming that way, stumbled straight into the Spider's snare. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ghastly ghastly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Gadfly Gadfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stumbled stumble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Spider Spider PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 snare snare NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | gerund | a ghastly Gadfly *not said here* | that way | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stumble** | participle | | a ghastly Gadfly *not said here* | | the Spider's snare | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into snare=Destination | | 3 | **snare** | | the Spider | | | | | | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/47/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/17/)