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title: And the master of the cauldron answered: “I will add fifty more soul… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the master of the cauldron answered: “I will add fifty more souls to the lot; only do go away!” Who acts: master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 123

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And the master of the cauldron answered: “I will add fifty more souls to the lot; only do go away!”

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** answer, add, go away · **To what, where:** fifty more souls · **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 (master), 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:pg62509:13:123
# text = And the master of the cauldron answered: “I will add fifty more souls to the lot; only do go away!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the master of the cauldron |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | the master of the cauldron *= master* | fifty more souls |  |  |  | to the lot | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient to lot=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **go away** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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