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title: They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it grew right up to the heavens (_nebo_). Who acts: beans, ceiling. 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 92

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They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it grew right up to the heavens (\_nebo\_).

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**Who acts:** beans, ceiling · **What happens:** cut away, go, grow · **To what, where:** ceiling

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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 (beans, ceiling), 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:pg22373:51:92
# text = They cut away the ceiling and the roof; it went on growing until it grew right up to the heavens (_nebo_).
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	nebo	nebo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut away** | present | beans *= bean* | the ceiling and the roof |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ceiling=Product |
| 2 | **go** | past | ceiling |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | ceiling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | ceiling |  |  |  |  | up the heavens; right *property* | 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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