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title: Out jumped the cudgel, and took to thumping and smashing, and knocke… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Out jumped the cudgel, and took to thumping and smashing, and knocked over ever such a lot of people. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 50

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Out jumped the cudgel, and took to thumping and smashing, and knocked over ever such a lot of people.

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**What happens:** jump, take, thump, smash, knock over · **To what, where:** cudgel, lot

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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: 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:pg22373:46:50
# text = Out jumped the cudgel, and took to thumping and smashing, and knocked over ever such a lot of people.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	thumping	thump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past |  | the cudgel |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cudgel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **knock over** | past |  | such lot of people |  |  | ever |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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