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title: The cabbage went on growing again; grew, grew right up to the ceiling. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The cabbage went on growing again; grew, grew right up to the ceiling. Who acts: cabbage. 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 15

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The cabbage went on growing again; grew, grew right up to the ceiling.

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**Who acts:** cabbage · **What happens:** go, grow

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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 (cabbage), 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:pg22373:51:15
# text = The cabbage went on growing again; grew, grew right up to the ceiling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the cabbage |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the cabbage *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the cabbage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the cabbage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | up the ceiling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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