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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 10

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This commission also the Novgorod man fulfilled, and behold! during the night the brook Chorny ran riotous, Lake Ilmen waxed boisterous, a tempest arose, and the raging waters swept away the mill.

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**Who acts:** commission, brook, Lake, tempest, raging waters · **What happens:** fulfil, run, wax, arise, rage, sweep away · **To what, where:** mill

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commission, brook, Lake, tempest), 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:pg22373:39:10
# text = This commission also the Novgorod man fulfilled, and behold! during the night the brook Chorny ran riotous, Lake Ilmen waxed boisterous, a tempest arose, and the raging waters swept away the mill.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Chorny	Chorny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	riotous	riotous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Ilmen	Ilmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | past | this commission |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | the brook |  |  |  | night | riotous *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wax** | past | Lake |  |  |  |  | boisterous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | past | a tempest |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sweep away** | past | the raging waters | the mill |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory |

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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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