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description: Twelve loads of firewood were set alight, and the stove and the walls were made red-hot--impossible to come within five versts of it. Who acts: stove. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 90

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Twelve loads of firewood were set alight, and the stove and the walls were made red-hot--impossible to come within five versts of it.

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**Who acts:** stove · **What happens:** set, make, come · **To what, where:** Twelve loads, stove

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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 (stove), 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:pg22373:27:90
# text = Twelve loads of firewood were set alight, and the stove and the walls were made red-hot--impossible to come within five versts of it.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	versts	verst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | Twelve loads of firewood |  |  |  | alight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the stove and the walls |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the stove and the walls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within five versts of firewood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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