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description: The girls finished bathing and came out on the shore: eleven of them put on their shifts, turned into birds, and flew away home. Who acts: girls, eleven. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 22

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The girls finished bathing and came out on the shore: eleven of them put on their shifts, turned into birds, and flew away home.

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**Who acts:** girls, eleven · **What happens:** finish, bathe, come out, put on, turn, fly away · **To what, where:** shore, shifts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, eleven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:1798`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:27:22
# text = The girls finished bathing and came out on the shore: eleven of them put on their shifts, turned into birds, and flew away home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bathing	bathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | the girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bathe** | gerund | the girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | past | the girls *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **put on** | past | eleven of girls | girls's shifts |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shift=Goal |
| 5 | **turn** | past | eleven of girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result |
| 6 | **fly away** | past | eleven of girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shift** |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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