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title: The poor man betook himself to work, swept out the yard, cleaned the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man betook himself to work, swept out the yard, cleaned the horses, fetched water, chopped firewood. Who acts: poor man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 163

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The poor man betook himself to work, swept out the yard, cleaned the horses, fetched water, chopped firewood.

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**Who acts:** poor man · **What happens:** betake, work, sweep out, clean, fetch, chop · **To what, where:** man, yard, horses

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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:pg22373:35:163
# text = The poor man betook himself to work, swept out the yard, cleaned the horses, fetched water, chopped firewood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betake** | past | the poor man | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sweep out** | participle | the poor man *not said here* | the yard |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory |
| 4 | **clean** | past |  | the horses and fetched water and chopped firewood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 5 | **fetch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **chop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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