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description: Early the next morning his mother set to work to bake pancakes, baked them, and all of a sudden fell to thinking about her boy. " Who acts: mother, pancakes, all. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 22

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Early the next morning his mother set to work to bake pancakes, baked them, and all of a sudden fell to thinking about her boy. "

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**Who acts:** mother, pancakes, all · **What happens:** set, work, bake, fall, think · **To what, where:** pancakes

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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 (mother, pancakes, all), 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:pg22373:32:22
# text = Early the next morning his mother set to work to bake pancakes, baked them, and all of a sudden fell to thinking about her boy. "
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | flock's mother |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | flock's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bake** | to-infinitive | flock's mother *not said here* | pancakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Product |
| 4 | **bake** | participle | pancakes *not said here* | pancakes *= pancake* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 5 | **fall** | past | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about mother's boy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about boy=Topic |

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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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