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title: And by evening the bundle of raw flax was heckled and spun and reele… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And by evening the bundle of raw flax was heckled and spun and reeled, and the cloth was woven and bleached, so that one could have made shirts of it straight off. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 25

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And by evening the bundle of raw flax was heckled and spun and reeled, and the cloth was woven and bleached, so that one could have made shirts of it straight off.

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**What happens:** heckle, spin, reel, weave, bleach, make · **To what, where:** bundle, cloth, one

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg29672:15:25
# text = And by evening the bundle of raw flax was heckled and spun and reeled, and the cloth was woven and bleached, so that one could have made shirts of it straight off.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heckled	heckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	reeled	reel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bleached	bleach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	one	one	PRON	PRP	PronType=Ind	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
30	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	off	off	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heckle** | past · passive |  | the bundle of raw flax |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **weave** | past · passive |  | the cloth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **bleach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | could · perfect · passive |  | one |  |  |  | off *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary shirt=Product |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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