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title: A spider has come, and, with waving of arms and weaving of nets, has… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A spider has come, and, with waving of arms and weaving of nets, has set his snares in all the ways to which the flies and gnats resort. Who acts: spider, flies, Ho. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 56

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A spider has come, and, with waving of arms and weaving of nets, has set his snares in all the ways to which the flies and gnats resort.

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**Who acts:** spider, flies, Ho · **What happens:** come, weave, set, resort, wave, snare · **To what, where:** waving, ways, arms

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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, flies, Ho), 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:pg22373:17:56
# text = A spider has come, and, with waving of arms and weaving of nets, has set his snares in all the ways to which the flies and gnats resort.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	waving	waving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	resort	resort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | a spider |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of nets | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of net=Trajectory |
| 3 | **set** | present · perfect · passive |  | waving of arms |  | all ways |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme snare=Destination |
| 4 | **resort** | present | the flies and gnats |  |  |  |  | to all ways | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to which=Result |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | arms |  |  |  |  | nom waving «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **snare** |  | Ho |  |  |  |  |  | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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