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title: Then they began to put them together—bit by bit, fragment by fragment. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they began to put them together—bit by bit, fragment by fragment. Who acts: doctors. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

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Then they began to put them together—bit by bit, fragment by fragment.

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**Who acts:** doctors · **What happens:** begin, put · **To what, where:** bit, doctors

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors), 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:pg62509:12:41
# text = Then they began to put them together—bit by bit, fragment by fragment.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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* | bit by bit |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | doctors *= doctor* *not said here* | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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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