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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 88

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When he had used up one chunk, he betook himself to another; when two were used up, he took to a third; when three were used up, the fourth came into play.

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**Who acts:** Katoma, fourth · **What happens:** use up, betake, take, come · **To what, where:** one chunk, Katoma, two, three, play

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katoma, fourth), 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:pg22373:43:88
# text = When he had used up one chunk, he betook himself to another; when two were used up, he took to a third; when three were used up, the fourth came into play.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	chunk	chunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use up** | past · perfect | Katoma | one chunk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **betake** | past | Katoma | Katoma |  |  |  | to another | tree rules |
| 3 | **use up** | past · passive |  | two |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | Katoma |  |  |  |  | to a third *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to third=Result |
| 5 | **use up** | past · passive |  | three |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | past | the fourth |  |  | play |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into play=Initial\_Location |

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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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