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description: The peasant set to work and filled the cart with gold; cleared the pit to the very last ducat. Who acts: peasant set. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 73

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The peasant set to work and filled the cart with gold; cleared the pit to the very last ducat.

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**Who acts:** peasant set · **What happens:** work, fill, clear · **To what, where:** cart, pit, last ducat

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant set), 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:pg22373:36:73
# text = The peasant set to work and filled the cart with gold; cleared the pit to the very last ducat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ducat	ducat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | to-infinitive | the peasant set *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the peasant set *not said here* | the cart |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cart=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 3 | **clear** | past | the peasant set | the pit |  | the last ducat |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent pit=Theme to ducat=Destination |

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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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