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title: There's a mill there--every time it turns, out come a pie and a cake… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There's a mill there--every time it turns, out come a pie and a cake, with a pot of _kasha_ on top!" Who acts: mill. 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 25

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There's a mill there--every time it turns, out come a pie and a cake, with a pot of \_kasha\_ on top!"

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**Who acts:** mill · **What happens:** be, turn, come · **To what, where:** pie, top

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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 (mill), 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:pg22373:51:25
# text = There's a mill there--every time it turns, out come a pie and a cake, with a pot of _kasha_ on top!"
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	2	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	kasha	kasha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a mill |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | mill |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | mill *not said here* | a pie and a cake |  | top |  | with a pot of kasha; out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pie=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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