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title: And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, look… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, looked at the little tub—all the little bones were floating about all burned to pieces. Who acts: master, nothing, little bones. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 117

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And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, looked at the little tub—all the little bones were floating about all burned to pieces.

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**Who acts:** master, nothing, little bones · **What happens:** wait, happen, look, float, burn · **To what, where:** all

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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 (master, nothing, little bones), 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:pg62509:16:117
# text = And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, looked at the little tub—all the little bones were floating about all burned to pieces.
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	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | master |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the little tub | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tub=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | past · progressive | all little bones |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **burn** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | to pieces | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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