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description: One day, after toiling hard afield, they sat down under a bush to eat their last morsel of bread. Who acts: One day, life. 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 129

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One day, after toiling hard afield, they sat down under a bush to eat their last morsel of bread.

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**Who acts:** One day, life · **What happens:** toil, sit down, eat · **To what, where:** afield, bush, last morsel

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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 (One day, life), 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:pg22373:38:129
# text = One day, after toiling hard afield, they sat down under a bush to eat their last morsel of bread.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	afield	afield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | gerund | One day *not said here* | afield |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location afield=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | life |  |  | a bush | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | life's last morsel of bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |

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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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