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title: By to-morrow morning all this must be as smooth as the palm of my ha… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By to-morrow morning all this must be as smooth as the palm of my hand; rye must be sown and grow so high that a jackdaw might be hidden in it. Who acts: this. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 25

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By to-morrow morning all this must be as smooth as the palm of my hand; rye must be sown and grow so high that a jackdaw might be hidden in it.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be, sow, grow, hide · **To what, where:** rye, jackdaw

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:30:25
# text = By to-morrow morning all this must be as smooth as the palm of my hand; rye must be sown and grow so high that a jackdaw might be hidden in it.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is** | must | this |  |  |  | morning | as the palm of my hand; smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sow** | must · passive |  | rye |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | might · passive |  | a jackdaw |  | rye |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in it=Location |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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