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title: The fool had to pass by a town, and the people he met were jammed in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fool had to pass by a town, and the people he met were jammed into corners by his horseless sledge in a way that was perfectly awful. Who acts: fool, horseless sledge, way. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its de
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 34

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The fool had to pass by a town, and the people he met were jammed into corners by his horseless sledge in a way that was perfectly awful.

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**Who acts:** fool, horseless sledge, way · **What happens:** have, pass, meet, jam, be · **To what, where:** people, corners

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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 (fool, horseless sledge, way), 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:pg22373:46:34
# text = The fool had to pass by a town, and the people he met were jammed into corners by his horseless sledge in a way that was perfectly awful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	horseless	horseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the fool |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | the fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by town=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | FOOL | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **jam** | past · passive | FOOL's horseless sledge in a way | the people |  | corners |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into corner=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | a way |  |  |  |  | awful, perfectly *property* | tree rules |

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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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