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description: Flow past towns, and bathe villages without number as far as the blue sea. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, 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 4, sentence 102

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Flow past towns, and bathe villages without number as far as the blue sea.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** flow, bathe · **To what, where:** past towns, villages

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:38:102
# text = Flow past towns, and bathe villages without number as far as the blue sea.
1	Flow	flow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | imperative | you *not said here* | past towns |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme |
| 2 | **bathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* | villages |  |  |  | without number; far *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=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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