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description: And as he plaited the shoe, he kept looking up at the moon, and saying with a menacing gesture:-- Who acts: log. 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 26

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And as he plaited the shoe, he kept looking up at the moon, and saying with a menacing gesture:--

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**Who acts:** log · **What happens:** plait, keep, look up, say · **To what, where:** shoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (log), 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:pg22373:38:26
# text = And as he plaited the shoe, he kept looking up at the moon, and saying with a menacing gesture:--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plaited	plait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	menacing	menacing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plait** | past | log | the shoe |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | log |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | log *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | log *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a menacing gesture | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with gesture=Manner |

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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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