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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 152

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She gnawed, and gnawed, and at length contrived by hard work to bore her way through; but by this time Prince Ivan was far ahead.

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**Who acts:** passing · **What happens:** gnaw, contrive, bore, be · **To what, where:** length, way

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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 (passing), 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:pg22373:32:152
# text = She gnawed, and gnawed, and at length contrived by hard work to bore her way through; but by this time Prince Ivan was far ahead.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bore	bore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gnaw** | past | passing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gnaw** | participle | passing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contrive** | participle | passing *not said here* |  |  | length |  | by hard work | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bore** | to-infinitive | passing *not said here* | passing's way |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | time | ahead, far *property* | tree rules |

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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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