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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 124

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And the Cat sat down to the loom, and worked away; muddled everything about, if it didn't do much weaving.

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**Who acts:** Cat, loom · **What happens:** sit down, work away, muddle, not do · **To what, where:** everything, much weaving

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, loom), 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:pg22373:28:124
# text = And the Cat sat down to the loom, and worked away; muddled everything about, if it didn't do much weaving.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	muddled	muddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	weaving	weaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  | to the loom | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work away** | past | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **muddle** | participle | the Cat *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | about *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | loom | much weaving |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weaving=Eventuality |

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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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