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title: Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but the loaves got no smaller. Who acts: biscuits, each, loaves. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 12

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Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but the loaves got no smaller.

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**Who acts:** biscuits, each, loaves · **What happens:** eat away, eat, get · **To what, where:** loaves, fill, smaller

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (biscuits, each, loaves), 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:pg22373:59:12
# text = Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but the loaves got no smaller.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat away** | past | biscuits *= biscuit* |  |  | the loaves |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | past | each | man's fill |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | the loaves | no smaller |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer small=Stimulus |

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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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