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title: But all there was left for Vasilísa was a little of some kind of sou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But all there was left for Vasilísa was a little of some kind of soup, and a crust of bread, and a snippet of pork. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 117

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But all there was left for Vasilísa was a little of some kind of soup, and a crust of bread, and a snippet of pork.

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**What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** crust

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:14:117
# text = But all there was left for Vasilísa was a little of some kind of soup, and a crust of bread, and a snippet of pork.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snippet	snippet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | a crust of bread |  | there |  | a snippet of pork *parataxis*; all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Vasilísa; of soup; little *property* | tree rules |

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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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