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title: All this took place towards nightfall, and the Soldier stopped so lo… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: All this took place towards nightfall, and the Soldier stopped so long at the Miller's that it grew quite dark. Who acts: this, Soldier, miller. 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 eve
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 169

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All this took place towards nightfall, and the Soldier stopped so long at the Miller's that it grew quite dark.

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**Who acts:** this, Soldier, miller · **What happens:** take, stop, grow · **To what, where:** place, Miller

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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 (this, Soldier, miller), 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:pg22373:53:169
# text = All this took place towards nightfall, and the Soldier stopped so long at the Miller's that it grew quite dark.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this | place |  |  |  | towards nightfall | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the Soldier |  |  | the Miller |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at miller=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past | miller |  |  |  |  | dark *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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