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description: The towel is used, also, for the purpose of constructing or annihilating a bridge. Who acts: purpose. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 35

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The towel is used, also, for the purpose of constructing or annihilating a bridge.

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**Who acts:** purpose · **What happens:** use, construct, annihilate · **To what, where:** towel, bridge

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose), 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:pg22373:29:35
# text = The towel is used, also, for the purpose of constructing or annihilating a bridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	constructing	construct	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	annihilating	annihilate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | the towel |  |  |  | for the purpose | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for purpose=Eventuality |
| 2 | **construct** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **annihilate** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | a bridge |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient |

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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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