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title: Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never hear… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never heard of again. " Who acts: breaks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 149

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Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never heard of again. "

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**Who acts:** breaks · **What happens:** fall, not hear · **To what, where:** stalk breaks

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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 (breaks), 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:pg22373:51:149
# text = Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never heard of again. "
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | breaks *= break* | the stalk breaks |  |  |  | headlong *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | present · passive | breaks *= break* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus |

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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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