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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 96

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The peasant made a clean breast of everything--how Woe the Woeful had attached itself to him, how he and Woe had drunk away all that he had, to the very last thread, so that the only thing that was left him was the soul in his body.

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**Who acts:** peasant, Woe, only thing · **What happens:** make, attach, drink away, have, leave, be · **To what, where:** clean breast, breast, peasant, last thread, only thing, soul

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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, Woe, only thing), 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:pg22373:36:96
# text = The peasant made a clean breast of everything--how Woe the Woeful had attached itself to him, how he and Woe had drunk away all that he had, to the very last thread, so that the only thing that was left him was the soul in his body.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Woeful	Woeful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	49	mark	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the peasant | a clean breast of everything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Product |
| 2 | **attach** | past · perfect | Woe | breast | peasant |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient to he=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **drink away** | past · perfect · passive |  | peasant |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | peasant | the last thread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the only thing |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the only thing | the soul |  | peasant's body |  |  | tree rules |

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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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