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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 147

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But the moment she sat down on the shovel, Ivashko instantly pitched her into the oven, slammed to the iron plate in front of it, ran out of the hut, shut the door, and hurriedly climbed up ever so high an oak-tree \[which stood close by\].

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**Who acts:** moment, Ivashko, oak tree · **What happens:** sit down, pitch, slam, run, shut, climb up · **To what, where:** shovel, Alenka, oven, hut, door

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, Ivashko, oak tree), 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:pg22373:31:147
# text = But the moment she sat down on the shovel, Ivashko instantly pitched her into the oven, slammed to the iron plate in front of it, ran out of the hut, shut the door, and hurriedly climbed up ever so high an oak-tree [which stood close by].
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	45	advmod	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
50	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl	_	_
53	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 moment |  |  | the shovel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=Location |
| 2 | **pitch** | past | Ivashko | Alenka |  | the oven |  | instantly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into oven=Destination |
| 3 | **slam** | participle |  | the oven *not said here* |  |  |  | to the iron plate in front of shovel | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | Ivashko *not said here* |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hut=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shut** | infinitive | Ivashko *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 6 | **climb up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stand** | past | a oak tree |  |  |  |  | close *property* | 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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