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title: The Evil one strove and strove, but nothing came of it, the izba sti… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Evil one strove and strove, but nothing came of it, the izba still remained pitch dark. Who acts: Evil one, nothing, izba. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 26

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The Evil one strove and strove, but nothing came of it, the izba still remained pitch dark.

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**Who acts:** Evil one, nothing, izba · **What happens:** strive, come, remain · **To what, where:** izba, pitch dark

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil one, nothing, izba), 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:pg22373:56:26
# text = The Evil one strove and strove, but nothing came of it, the izba still remained pitch dark.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	izba	izba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	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 | **strive** | past | the Evil one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | past | the Evil one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | nothing | the izba |  |  |  | of window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **remain** | participle | the izba *not said here* | pitch dark |  |  | still |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dark=Attribute |

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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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