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title: And immediately the old man drew himself up and straightened himself… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And immediately the old man drew himself up and straightened himself, and called aloud and whistled with a ringing voice, with a shrill[334] whistle. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 57

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And immediately the old man drew himself up and straightened himself, and called aloud and whistled with a ringing voice, with a shrill\[334\] whistle.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** draw up, straighten, call, whistle · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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:pg22373:45:57
# text = And immediately the old man drew himself up and straightened himself, and called aloud and whistled with a ringing voice, with a shrill[334] whistle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	straightened	straighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ringing	ringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	334	334	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | the old man | man |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **straighten** | past | the old man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whistle** | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a ringing voice; with a shrill 334 whistle | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |

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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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