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title: Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and beg… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and began watching would a young master emerge from the bath. Who acts: man, young master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 116

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Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and began watching would a young master emerge from the bath.

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**Who acts:** man, young master · **What happens:** throw, hurl, begin, watch, emerge · **To what, where:** bones, milk, bath

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young 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:pg62509:16:116
# text = Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and began watching would a young master emerge from the bath.
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | man | the bones |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 2 | **hurl** | past | man *not said here* | bones *= bone* |  | the milk |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into milk=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **emerge** | would | a young master |  |  | the bath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial\_Location |

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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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