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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 52

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She enters the hut and, after some short parley, seizes her pestle, and begins beating the hero with it until he falls prostrate.

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**Who acts:** party, rest · **What happens:** enter, seize, begin, beat, fall · **To what, where:** hut, pestle, hero

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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 (party, rest), 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:pg22373:29:52
# text = She enters the hut and, after some short parley, seizes her pestle, and begins beating the hero with it until he falls prostrate.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	parley	parley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	seizes	seize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | party | the hut |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination |
| 2 | **seize** | present | party *not said here* | party's pestle |  |  | after some short parley |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | present | party *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beat** | gerund | party *not said here* | the hero |  |  |  | with pestle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hero=Patient with it=Instrument |
| 5 | **fall** | present | rest |  |  |  |  | prostrate *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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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