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description: Exactly at midnight a strong wind will suddenly begin to blow, the coffin will begin to shake, its lid will fall off. Who acts: strong wind, coffin, lid. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 105

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Exactly at midnight a strong wind will suddenly begin to blow, the coffin will begin to shake, its lid will fall off.

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**Who acts:** strong wind, coffin, lid · **What happens:** begin, blow, shake, fall off

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong wind, coffin, lid), 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:pg22373:47:105
# text = Exactly at midnight a strong wind will suddenly begin to blow, the coffin will begin to shake, its lid will fall off.
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | future | a strong wind |  |  |  |  | exactly, suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **blow** | to-infinitive | a strong wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | future | the coffin |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the coffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fall off** | future | coffin's lid |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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