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description: Plant me by to-morrow a garden green--a big and shady one; and there must be birds singing in the garden, and flowers blossoming on the trees, and ripe apples and pears hanging from the boughs." Who acts: you, birds, flowers, ripe apples. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mu
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 54

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Plant me by to-morrow a garden green--a big and shady one; and there must be birds singing in the garden, and flowers blossoming on the trees, and ripe apples and pears hanging from the boughs."

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**Who acts:** you, birds, flowers, ripe apples · **What happens:** plant, be, sing, blossom, hang · **To what, where:** me, birds, garden, trees, boughs

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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 (you, birds, flowers, ripe apples), 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:pg22373:27:54
# text = Plant me by to-morrow a garden green--a big and shady one; and there must be birds singing in the garden, and flowers blossoming on the trees, and ripe apples and pears hanging from the boughs."
1	Plant	plant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
22	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | by morrow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by morrow=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | birds and flowers and ripe apples and pears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | birds and flowers and ripe apples and pears *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
| 4 | **blossom** | gerund | flowers *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
| 5 | **hang** | gerund | ripe apples and pears *not said here* |  |  | the boughs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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