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title: Frost began cracking more than ever, and more loudly did he snap his… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Frost began cracking more than ever, and more loudly did he snap his fingers, and to the maiden he said:-- Who acts: Frost, Meantime. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 95

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Frost began cracking more than ever, and more loudly did he snap his fingers, and to the maiden he said:--

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**Who acts:** Frost, Meantime · **What happens:** begin, crack, snap, say · **To what, where:** more, fingers, maiden · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost, Meantime), 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:pg22373:39:95
# text = Frost began cracking more than ever, and more loudly did he snap his fingers, and to the maiden he said:--
1	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Frost |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund | Frost *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme |
| 3 | **snap** | past · do-support | Meantime | Meantime's fingers |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Meantime |  | the maiden |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient |

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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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