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title: "Old woman! why, old woman! how one does live up in heaven! — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Old woman! why, old woman! how one does live up in heaven! Who acts: one. 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 24

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"Old woman! why, old woman! how one does live up in heaven!

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** live up · **To what, where:** heaven

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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 (one), 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:pg22373:51:24
# text = "Old woman! why, old woman! how one does live up in heaven!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | one |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location |

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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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