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title: “If there were a log here one hundred _puds_, I could throw it highe… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If there were a log here one hundred _puds_, I could throw it higher than the clouds on high.” Who acts: one hundred, Woodsprite. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 145

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“If there were a log here one hundred \_puds\_, I could throw it higher than the clouds on high.”

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**Who acts:** one hundred, Woodsprite · **What happens:** be, throw

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one hundred, Woodsprite), 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:pg62509:17:145
# text = “If there were a log here one hundred _puds_, I could throw it higher than the clouds on high.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
10	_	_	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	puds	pud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | one hundred |  |  |  |  | \_ puds; here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** *in a quote* | could | the Woodsprite *= woodsprite* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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