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description: And those swans and geese took hold of him and carried him back, flew up to the cottage, and dropped him in the upper room. Who acts: swans. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 21

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And those swans and geese took hold of him and carried him back, flew up to the cottage, and dropped him in the upper room.

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**Who acts:** swans · **What happens:** take, carry back, fly up, drop, hold · **To what, where:** hold, flock, cottage, upper room

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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 (swans), 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:pg22373:32:21
# text = And those swans and geese took hold of him and carried him back, flew up to the cottage, and dropped him in the upper room.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | that swans and geese | hold of flock |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **carry back** | past | that swans and geese *not said here* | flock |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **fly up** | past | that swans and geese *not said here* |  |  | the cottage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination |
| 4 | **drop** | past | that swans and geese *not said here* | flock |  | the upper room |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in room=Destination |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | flock |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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