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description: Here also did he try his strength, heaving aloft a ball which weighed some fifteen hundred poods. Who acts: Ivan, aloft ball. 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 55

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Here also did he try his strength, heaving aloft a ball which weighed some fifteen hundred poods.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, aloft ball · **What happens:** try, heave, weigh · **To what, where:** strength, aloft ball, hundred poods

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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 (Ivan, aloft ball), 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:pg22373:24:55
# text = Here also did he try his strength, heaving aloft a ball which weighed some fifteen hundred poods.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	heaving	heave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
16	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · do-support | Ivan | Ivan's strength |  | here |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality |
| 2 | **heave** | gerund | Ivan *not said here* | a aloft ball |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 3 | **weigh** | past | a aloft ball | some hundred poods |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pood=Value |

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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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