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title: Then the crow flung himself on earth and sat not far from the grey W… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the crow flung himself on earth and sat not far from the grey Wolf on the fields. Who acts: crow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 63

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Then the crow flung himself on earth and sat not far from the grey Wolf on the fields.

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**Who acts:** crow · **What happens:** fling, not sit · **To what, where:** Iván, earth, grey Wolf

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow), 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:pg62509:11:63
# text = Then the crow flung himself on earth and sat not far from the grey Wolf on the fields.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | the crow | Iván |  | earth | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on earth=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **sit** | past | the crow *not said here* |  |  | the grey Wolf |  | on the fields; far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=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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