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description: Afterwards they began putting the pieces together; when the old man breathed on them the different pieces stuck together. Who acts: doctors, old man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 33

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Afterwards they began putting the pieces together; when the old man breathed on them the different pieces stuck together.

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**Who acts:** doctors, old man · **What happens:** begin, put, breathe, stick together · **To what, where:** pieces, different pieces

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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 (doctors, old man), 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:pg22373:59:33
# text = Afterwards they began putting the pieces together; when the old man breathed on them the different pieces stuck together.
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
19	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | doctors *= doctor* *not said here* | the pieces |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |
| 3 | **breathe** | participle | the old man |  |  |  |  | on doctors *= doctor* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination |
| 4 | **stick together** | participle |  | the different pieces *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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