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description: They gave the fool their orders and went away to the downstream towns; but the fool stretched himself on top of the stove and remained lying there. Who acts: boots, fool. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its dependen
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 10

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They gave the fool their orders and went away to the downstream towns; but the fool stretched himself on top of the stove and remained lying there.

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**Who acts:** boots, fool · **What happens:** give, go away, stretch, remain, lie, order · **To what, where:** fool, downstream towns, top

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (boots, fool), 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:pg22373:46:10
# text = They gave the fool their orders and went away to the downstream towns; but the fool stretched himself on top of the stove and remained lying there.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	downstream	downstream	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | boots *= boot* | the fool |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 2 | **go away** | past | boots *= boot* *not said here* |  |  | the downstream towns |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | the fool | FOOL |  | top of the stove |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | the fool *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **order** |  | boots *= boot* |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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