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description: "Now we must heap up a great pile of wood, and consume this accursed one with fire, and fling her ashes to the wind!" Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 61

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"Now we must heap up a great pile of wood, and consume this accursed one with fire, and fling her ashes to the wind!"

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** heap up, consume, accurs, fling · **To what, where:** great pile, accursed one, ashes, wind

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg22373:44:61
# text = "Now we must heap up a great pile of wood, and consume this accursed one with fire, and fling her ashes to the wind!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	heap	heap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap up** *in a quote* | must | we | a great pile of wood |  |  | now |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pile=Theme |
| 2 | **consume** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | this accursed one |  |  |  | with fire | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
| 3 | **accurs** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fling** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | cripple's ashes |  | the wind |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ash=Theme to wind=Destination |

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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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