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description: Presently he saw a golden-handled hatchet sticking in a tree, and he felt a strong desire to seize it. Who acts: smith, handled hatchet. 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 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 77

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Presently he saw a golden-handled hatchet sticking in a tree, and he felt a strong desire to seize it.

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**Who acts:** smith, handled hatchet · **What happens:** see, handle, stick, feel, seize · **To what, where:** handled hatchet, tree, strong desire, desire

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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 (smith, handled hatchet), 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:pg22373:35:77
# text = Presently he saw a golden-handled hatchet sticking in a tree, and he felt a strong desire to seize it.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | smith | a handled hatchet |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatchet=Stimulus |
| 2 | **handle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stick** | gerund | a handled hatchet *not said here* |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tree=Destination |
| 4 | **feel** | past | smith | a strong desire |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | to-infinitive | smith *not said here* | desire |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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