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title: And in all the Woodsprite’s forests the King himself laid traps. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And in all the Woodsprite’s forests the King himself laid traps. Who acts: King. 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 50

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And in all the Woodsprite’s forests the King himself laid traps.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** traps, forests

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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 (King), 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:pg62509:17:50
# text = And in all the Woodsprite’s forests the King himself laid traps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	nmod	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the King  King | traps |  | Woodsprite's forests |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme in forest=Destination |

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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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