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description: Besides all this, they resolved to build, for the use of all the faithful, a long bridge across swamps and where no man could find a footing. Who acts: children, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 93

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Besides all this, they resolved to build, for the use of all the faithful, a long bridge across swamps and where no man could find a footing.

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**Who acts:** children, man · **What happens:** resolve, build, find · **To what, where:** use, footing

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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 (children, man), 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:pg22373:52:93
# text = Besides all this, they resolved to build, for the use of all the faithful, a long bridge across swamps and where no man could find a footing.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	footing	footing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | besides this | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the use of all faithful and a long bridge across swamps |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 3 | **find** | could | no man | a footing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Topic |

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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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