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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 168

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And he began kissing the child, caressing it, and at the same time bursting into such floods of tears!

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**Who acts:** King, same time, tears · **What happens:** begin, kiss, caress, burst, flood · **To what, where:** child, such floods

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (King, same time, tears), 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:pg22373:26:168
# text = And he began kissing the child, caressing it, and at the same time bursting into such floods of tears!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	caressing	caress	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	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 | King |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund | King *not said here* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **caress** | gerund | King *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **burst** | gerund | the same time *not said here* |  |  | such floods of tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flood** |  | tears |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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