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description: It grows up to the floor, up to the ceiling, up to the roof; each time way is made for it, and finally it grows right up to heaven (_do nebushka_). Who acts: cottager, _. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 110

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It grows up to the floor, up to the ceiling, up to the roof; each time way is made for it, and finally it grows right up to heaven (\_do nebushka\_).

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**Who acts:** cottager, \_ · **What happens:** grow up, make, grow, do · **To what, where:** time way, nebushka

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottager, \_), 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:pg22373:51:110
# text = It grows up to the floor, up to the ceiling, up to the roof; each time way is made for it, and finally it grows right up to heaven (_do nebushka_).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
37	nebushka	nebushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | cottager |  |  |  |  | to the floor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | each time way |  |  |  | for cottager | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for it=Asset |
| 3 | **grow** | present | cottager |  |  |  |  | up heaven; finally, right *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | \_ | nebushka |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nebushka=Eventuality |

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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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