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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 12

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At last, after fruitlessly shearing off nine of the Chudo-Yudo's heads, and finding himself embedded in the ground up to his armpits, Ivan flings his cap at the hut.

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** shear off, find, embed up, fling · **To what, where:** nine, Ivan, ground, cap, last

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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:pg22373:20:12
# text = At last, after fruitlessly shearing off nine of the Chudo-Yudo's heads, and finding himself embedded in the ground up to his armpits, Ivan flings his cap at the hut.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	fruitlessly	fruitlessly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shearing	shear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Chudo	Chudo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Yudo	Yudo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	embedded	embed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	armpits	armpit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
29	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shear off** | gerund |  | nine of the Chudo Yudo's heads |  |  |  | fruitlessly *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **embed up** | participle | Ivan *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | to Ivan's armpits | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination |
| 4 | **fling** | present | Ivan | Ivan's cap |  | last |  | at the hut | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cap=Theme at last=Destination |

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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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