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title: “The Woodsprite lays traps, and the animals are stupid and go into t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Woodsprite lays traps, and the animals are stupid and go into them.” Who acts: Woodsprite, animals. 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 46

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“The Woodsprite lays traps, and the animals are stupid and go into them.”

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**Who acts:** Woodsprite, animals · **What happens:** lay, be, go · **To what, where:** traps

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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 (Woodsprite, animals), 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:pg62509:17:46
# text = “The Woodsprite lays traps, and the animals are stupid and go into them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | the Woodsprite | traps |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Result |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the animals |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into animals *= animal* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into they=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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