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title: Immediately there rose out of the earth, goodness knows whence,[220]… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately there rose out of the earth, goodness knows whence,[220] high, ever so high mountains, their peaks touching the sky. Who acts: goodness, peaks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 120

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Immediately there rose out of the earth, goodness knows whence,\[220\] high, ever so high mountains, their peaks touching the sky.

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**Who acts:** goodness, peaks · **What happens:** rise, know, touch · **To what, where:** earth, 220, sky

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodness, peaks), 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:pg22373:32:120
# text = Immediately there rose out of the earth, goodness knows whence,[220] high, ever so high mountains, their peaks touching the sky.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	220	220	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | the earth; there |  | immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out earth=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present | goodness | 220 |  |  |  | high mountains and mountains's peaks *obl*; whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund | mountains's peaks *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Co-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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