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title: [222] _Zashumyeli_, they began to produce a _shum_ or noise. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [222] _Zashumyeli_, they began to produce a _shum_ or noise. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 209

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\[222\] \_Zashumyeli\_, they began to produce a \_shum\_ or noise.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** begin, produce · **To what, where:** shum

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg22373:34:209
# text = [222] _Zashumyeli_, they began to produce a _shum_ or noise.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	222	222	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Zashumyeli	Zashumyeli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **produce** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | a shum |  |  |  | noise *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shum=Result |

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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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