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title: Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population assembled and swarmed into the graveyard. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, 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 3, sentence 103

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Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population assembled and swarmed into the graveyard.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** spread, assemble, swarm · **To what, where:** news, village, whole population, graveyard

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg22373:53:103
# text = Well, they spread the news through the village; the whole population assembled and swarmed into the graveyard.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swarmed	swarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | eyes *= eye* | the news |  | the village |  | the whole population *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme through village=Destination |
| 2 | **assemble** | participle |  | the whole population *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swarm** | participle |  |  |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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