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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 136

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However many sheaves the Moujik may lay on the threshing-floor, he shall never thresh out of them more than a peck\[446\] at a time."

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**Who acts:** many sheaves, sheaf · **What happens:** lay, not thresh out · **To what, where:** threshing floor, Elijah

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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 (many sheaves, sheaf), 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:pg22373:57:136
# text = However many sheaves the Moujik may lay on the threshing-floor, he shall never thresh out of them more than a peck[446] at a time."
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	threshing	threshing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	thresh	thresh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	peck	peck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	446	446	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | may | many sheaves |  |  | the threshing floor |  | however *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **thresh out** | shall | sheaf | Elijah |  |  | time | a peck *obl* | tree rules |

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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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