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title: Dnieper turned into a river, and flowed through fertile meadows and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dnieper turned into a river, and flowed through fertile meadows and dreamy woods. Who acts: Dnieper. 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 105

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Dnieper turned into a river, and flowed through fertile meadows and dreamy woods.

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**Who acts:** Dnieper · **What happens:** turn, flow · **To what, where:** river, fertile meadows

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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 (Dnieper), 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:pg22373:38:105
# text = Dnieper turned into a river, and flowed through fertile meadows and dreamy woods.
1	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Dnieper |  |  | a river |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory |
| 2 | **flow** | past | Dnieper *not said here* |  |  | fertile meadows and dreamy woods |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Location |

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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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