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title: (or, "How can that be?") but Wednesday glared at her angrily; her ey… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: (or, "How can that be?") but Wednesday glared at her angrily; her eyes just did sparkle! Who acts: Wednesday, eyes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, 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 3, sentence 124

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(or, "How can that be?") but Wednesday glared at her angrily; her eyes just did sparkle!

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**Who acts:** Wednesday, eyes · **What happens:** glare, do · **To what, where:** sparkle

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wednesday, 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:pg22373:37:124
# text = (or, "How can that be?") but Wednesday glared at her angrily; her eyes just did sparkle!
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glare** | past | Wednesday |  |  |  |  | at woman; angrily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | woman's eyes | sparkle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparkle=Eventuality |

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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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