--- title: At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin;… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin; and the third time he rose and screwed up a grin. Who acts: Man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Magic and Witchcraft., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/) / 68 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 68 At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin; and the third time he rose and screwed up a grin. **Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** rise, screw up · **To what, where:** end, grin This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:49:68 # text = At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin; and the third time he rose and screwed up a grin. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 screwed screw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 screwed screw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | Man | | | | at the end of a while | on one elbow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | | 2 | **screw up** | participle | Man *not said here* | a grin | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=Patient | | 3 | **rise** | past | Man | | | | time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **screw up** | past | Man *not said here* | a grin | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/69/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/)