--- title: He began climbing up the cabbage-stalk, climbed and climbed, climbed… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He began climbing up the cabbage-stalk, climbed and climbed, climbed and climbed, climbed right up to the sky, cut a hole in the sky, and crept through. Who acts: man. 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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:pg22373:51:19 # text = He began climbing up the cabbage-stalk, climbed and climbed, climbed and climbed, climbed right up to the sky, cut a hole in the sky, and crept through. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 stalk stalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 19 right right ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 up up ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 through through ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | man | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **climb up** | gerund | man *not said here* | the cabbage stalk | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location stalk=Theme | | 3 | **climb** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **climb** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **climb** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **climb** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **climb** | past | | | | the sky | | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up sky=Trajectory | | 8 | **cut** | infinitive | | a hole | | the sky | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 9 | **creep** | past | | | | | | through *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/20/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/)