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description: Away she flew, and everywhere humming and buzzing about, told the flies and gnats of what had occurred. Who acts: 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.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 53

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Away she flew, and everywhere humming and buzzing about, told the flies and gnats of what had occurred.

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**Who acts:** Spider · **What happens:** fly, hum, buzz about, tell, occur · **To what, where:** flies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg22373:17:53
# text = Away she flew, and everywhere humming and buzzing about, told the flies and gnats of what had occurred.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	humming	hum	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Spider |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hum** | gerund | Spider *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **buzz about** | gerund | Spider *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Spider *not said here* |  | the flies and gnats of the flies and gnats of the flies |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fly=Recipient |
| 5 | **occur** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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