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description: At last Vikhor, after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming a fine yellow sand. " A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, 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 6, sentence 125

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At last Vikhor, after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming a fine yellow sand. "

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**What happens:** soar, strike, fall, become · **To what, where:** high, ground, last Vikhor, fine yellow sand

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:40:125
# text = At last Vikhor, after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming a fine yellow sand. "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | gerund |  |  |  | high |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on high=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strike** | past |  | the ground |  | last Vikhor |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund |  | a fine yellow sand |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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