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title: All sorts of trees were there, all sorts of fruits, all sorts of bir… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: All sorts of trees were there, all sorts of fruits, all sorts of birds! Who acts: sorts. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, 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 II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 34

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All sorts of trees were there, all sorts of fruits, all sorts of birds!

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**Who acts:** sorts · **What happens:** be, sort · **To what, where:** trees, fruits, birds

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts), 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:pg22373:24:34
# text = All sorts of trees were there, all sorts of fruits, all sorts of birds!
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all sorts of trees |  |  |  |  | all sorts of fruits and all sorts of birds *obl*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | trees |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | fruits and all sorts of birds |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | birds |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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