--- title: "It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to grind it to flour, to make five pies of it, to eat those pies, and then to start in pursuit--and even then to be in time." Who acts: It, ceiling. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/) / 106 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 106 "It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to grind it to flour, to make five pies of it, to eat those pies, and then to start in pursuit--and even then to be in time." **Who acts:** It, ceiling · **What happens:** be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · **To what, where:** wheat, ceiling, five pies, pies, pursuit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, ceiling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:22:106 # text = "It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to grind it to flour, to make five pies of it, to eat those pies, and then to start in pursuit--and even then to be in time." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 till till SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 reap reap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 thresh thresh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grind grind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 31 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 pies pie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 38 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 pies pie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 49 even even ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 54 advmod _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | wheat | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present | ceiling | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **reap** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | ceiling | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **thresh** *in a quote* | infinitive | | ceiling | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **grind** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | ceiling | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | five pies of ceiling | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product | | 9 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | that pies | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient | | 10 | **start** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | pursuit | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 11 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | in time; then | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/107/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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