--- title: And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped up from the floor a handful of the dust that had fallen out of the flax, and began stuffing and stuffing that woman's eyes full of it! Who acts: woman, dust. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 82 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 82 And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped up from the floor a handful of the dust that had fallen out of the flax, and began stuffing and stuffing that woman's eyes full of it! **Who acts:** woman, dust · **What happens:** go, spin, scoop up, fall, begin · **To what, where:** handful, floor, flax, stuffing 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 (woman, dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:37:82 # text = And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped up from the floor a handful of the dust that had fallen out of the flax, and began stuffing and stuffing that woman's eyes full of it! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux _ _ 12 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 scooped scoop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 flax flax NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 stuffing stuffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stuffing stuffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 38 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 acl:relcl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | woman | | | | | to the woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **spin** | past · perfect · progressive | the woman | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scoop up** | participle | the woman *not said here* | a handful of the dust | | the floor | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from floor=Trajectory | | 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | the dust | | | the flax | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out flax=Location | | 5 | **begin** | past | woman *not said here* | stuffing and stuffing | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuffing=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/83/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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