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title: But now, though I've been playing for three whole days, they are all… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But now, though I've been playing for three whole days, they are all sound. Who acts: I, strings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, 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 2, sentence 39

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But now, though I've been playing for three whole days, they are all sound.

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**Who acts:** I, strings · **What happens:** play, be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:4275`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:52:39
# text = But now, though I've been playing for three whole days, they are all sound.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect · progressive | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | strings *= string* |  |  |  | now | all, sound *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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