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description: The grandfather climbed up to heaven, climbed and climbed--there stood a hut (_khatka_), its walls of pancakes, its benches of white bread, the stove of buttered curds. Who acts: grandfather. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1, wit
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 93

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The grandfather climbed up to heaven, climbed and climbed--there stood a hut (\_khatka\_), its walls of pancakes, its benches of white bread, the stove of buttered curds.

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**Who acts:** grandfather · **What happens:** climb up, climb, stand, butter · **To what, where:** heaven, hut

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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 (grandfather), 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:pg22373:51:93
# text = The grandfather climbed up to heaven, climbed and climbed--there stood a hut (_khatka_), its walls of pancakes, its benches of white bread, the stove of buttered curds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	khatka	khatka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | the grandfather |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 2 | **climb** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **climb** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the grandfather *not said here* | a hut |  | there |  | heaven's walls of pancakes and heaven's benches of white bread and the stove of buttered curds *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
| 5 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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