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title: So the soldier bade the smiths stop, and as soon as he unbuckled the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the soldier bade the smiths stop, and as soon as he unbuckled the nosebag the devils rushed out, and flew off, without looking, into the depths of hell—into the abysses of hell. Who acts: soldier bade, matter. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its depen
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 32

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So the soldier bade the smiths stop, and as soon as he unbuckled the nosebag the devils rushed out, and flew off, without looking, into the depths of hell—into the abysses of hell.

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**Who acts:** soldier bade, matter · **What happens:** stop, unbuckle, rush out, fly off, look · **To what, where:** nosebag, devils

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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 bade, matter), 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:pg62509:13:32
# text = So the soldier bade the smiths stop, and as soon as he unbuckled the nosebag the devils rushed out, and flew off, without looking, into the depths of hell—into the abysses of hell.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	unbuckled	unbuckle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nosebag	nosebag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	abysses	abyss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | the soldier bade and the smiths |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **unbuckle** | past | matter | the nosebag |  |  |  | the devils *obj*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush out** | participle |  | the devils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly off** | past | matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the depths of hell and the abysses of hell | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into depth=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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