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title: The Woodsprite escaped and destroyed all the King’s traps. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woodsprite escaped and destroyed all the King’s traps. Who acts: 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 62

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The Woodsprite escaped and destroyed all the King’s traps.

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**Who acts:** Woodsprite · **What happens:** escape, destroy · **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), 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:pg62509:17:62
# text = The Woodsprite escaped and destroyed all the King’s traps.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | the Woodsprite |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | past | the Woodsprite *not said here* | the King's traps |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient |

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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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