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description: Then the dear sun glowed, and the rye grew ripe--like so much gold did it stand in the fields. Who acts: dear sun, rye, sun. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, 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 2, sentence 122

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Then the dear sun glowed, and the rye grew ripe--like so much gold did it stand in the fields.

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**Who acts:** dear sun, rye, sun · **What happens:** glow, grow, stand · **To what, where:** fields

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (dear sun, rye, sun), 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:pg22373:57:122
# text = Then the dear sun glowed, and the rye grew ripe--like so much gold did it stand in the fields.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | participle | the dear sun |  |  |  | then |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the rye |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past · do-support | sun |  |  | the fields |  | like much gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |

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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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