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title: The _liulka_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _liulka_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of being placed on the floor and rocked. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, 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 8, sentence 110

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The \_liulka\_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of being placed on the floor and rocked.

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**What happens:** suspend, swing, place, rock · **To what, where:** Russian cradle, floor

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:18:110
# text = The _liulka_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of being placed on the floor and rocked.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	liulka	liulka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspend** | present · passive |  | Russian cradle |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **swing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **place** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on floor=Destination |
| 4 | **rock** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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