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title: He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it and rinsed it, took it out, put piece to piece exactly the same as the old man had done. Who acts: pope, old man. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 60

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He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it and rinsed it, took it out, put piece to piece exactly the same as the old man had done.

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**Who acts:** pope, old man · **What happens:** cut, throw, wash, rinse, take out, put · **To what, where:** sabre, cauldron, piece

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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 (pope, old man), 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:pg62509:12:60
# text = He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it and rinsed it, took it out, put piece to piece exactly the same as the old man had done.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | pope | sabre |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **throw** | past | pope *not said here* | sabre |  |  |  | into the cauldron *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into cauldron=Result |
| 3 | **wash** | past | pope *not said here* | sabre |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **rinse** | past | pope *not said here* | sabre |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **take out** | past |  | sabre |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive |  | piece |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent piece=Asset piece=Goal |
| 7 | **do** | past · perfect | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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