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description: And he thought: “Shall I go straight into the burning pitch, for then the devils will throw me into the seething sulphur until such time as my sins shall have been melted from off me.” Who acts: soldier, devils. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its depend
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 107

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And he thought: “Shall I go straight into the burning pitch, for then the devils will throw me into the seething sulphur until such time as my sins shall have been melted from off me.”

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**Who acts:** soldier, devils · **What happens:** think, go, burn, throw, melt · **To what, where:** burning pitch, soldier, seething sulphur, sins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, devils), 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:pg62509:13:107
# text = And he thought: “Shall I go straight into the burning pitch, for then the devils will throw me into the seething sulphur until such time as my sins shall have been melted from off me.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	seething	seething	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | soldier |  |  | the burning pitch |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pitch=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | future | the devils | soldier |  |  | time | into the seething sulphur *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into sulphur=Result |
| 5 | **melt** *in a quote* | shall · perfect · passive |  | my sins |  |  |  | from soldier | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

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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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