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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 135

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No sooner was Dnieper asleep than they rose up quietly, chose the best and most sloping places, and began to flow away.

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**Who acts:** life, asleep · **What happens:** be, rise up, choose, slope, begin, flow away · **To what, where:** best

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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 (life, asleep), 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:pg22373:38:135
# text = No sooner was Dnieper asleep than they rose up quietly, chose the best and most sloping places, and began to flow away.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Dnieper	dniep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | asleep, dniep, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | life |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | past | no asleep | the best and most sloping places |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme |
| 4 | **slope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | no asleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **flow away** | to-infinitive | no asleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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