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description: During the night, back came Mother Friday and took the dust out of that woman's eyes, so that she was able to get about again. Who acts: dust. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 92

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During the night, back came Mother Friday and took the dust out of that woman's eyes, so that she was able to get about again.

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**Who acts:** dust · **What happens:** come, take, be, get about · **To what, where:** dust, eyes

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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 (dust), 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:pg22373:37:92
# text = During the night, back came Mother Friday and took the dust out of that woman's eyes, so that she was able to get about again.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | friday; night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | the dust |  | that woman's eyes |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | dust |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get about** | to-infinitive | dust *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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