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description: The Smith began promising and swearing that he would never again lift his hammer against the Demon, but would always pay him every attention. Who acts: Smith, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with its dependency
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 19

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The Smith began promising and swearing that he would never again lift his hammer against the Demon, but would always pay him every attention.

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**Who acts:** Smith, father · **What happens:** begin, promise, swear, lift, pay · **To what, where:** hammer, father

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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: who acts (Smith, father), 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:pg22373:18:19
# text = The Smith began promising and swearing that he would never again lift his hammer against the Demon, but would always pay him every attention.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swearing	swear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | the Smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swear** | gerund | the Smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lift** | would | father | father's hammer |  |  | again | against the Demon | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme against demon=Destination |
| 5 | **pay** | would |  |  | father |  |  | always *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset |

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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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