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title: As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!" Who acts: we, instant. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 84

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As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!"

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**Who acts:** we, instant · **What happens:** break, use up, arrive · **To what, where:** trunkful

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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 (we, instant), 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:pg22373:32:84
# text = As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!"
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	trunkful	trunkful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	trunkful	trunkful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · perfect | we | that trunkful of needles |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trunkful=Patient |
| 2 | **use up** | participle | we *not said here* | that trunkful of thread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunkful=Patient |
| 3 | **arrive** | future | that instant |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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