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title: The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not all… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not allowing so much as a single maggot to creep away! Who acts: peasants. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, 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 4, sentence 64

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The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not allowing so much as a single maggot to creep away!

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**Who acts:** peasants · **What happens:** knock down, fling, not allow, creep away · **To what, where:** crows, fire

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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:pg22373:54:64
# text = The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not allowing so much as a single maggot to creep away!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maggot	maggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock down** | past | the peasants | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **fling** | past | the peasants *not said here* | crows *= crow* |  | the fire |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into fire=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | gerund | the peasants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a single maggot | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **creep away** | to-infinitive | the peasants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «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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