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title: They began to kiss and embrace each other, to pour forth tears of joy. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: They began to kiss and embrace each other, to pour forth tears of joy. Who acts: footsteps. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, 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 6, sentence 41

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They began to kiss and embrace each other, to pour forth tears of joy.

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**Who acts:** footsteps · **What happens:** begin, kiss, embrace, pour · **To what, where:** each, tears

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footsteps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:5185`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:61:41
# text = They began to kiss and embrace each other, to pour forth tears of joy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obj	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | footsteps *= footstep* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | footsteps *= footstep* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **embrace** | infinitive | footsteps *= footstep* *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **pour** | to-infinitive | footsteps *= footstep* *not said here* | tears of joy |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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