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title: Thus three years went by, he all the while favoring the Evil One eve… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus three years went by, he all the while favoring the Evil One every morning either with a spitting or with a hammering. Who acts: three years, while. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 96

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Thus three years went by, he all the while favoring the Evil One every morning either with a spitting or with a hammering.

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**Who acts:** three years, while · **What happens:** go, favor · **To what, where:** Evil

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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 (three years, while), 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:pg22373:17:96
# text = Thus three years went by, he all the while favoring the Evil One every morning either with a spitting or with a hammering.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	favoring	favor	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spitting	spitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hammering	hammering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | three years |  |  |  |  | by man; thus *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
| 2 | **favor** | gerund | all while | the Evil |  |  | morning | with a spitting or a hammering; either *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |

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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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