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title: Now the King could not catch any more animals, and became angry, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the King could not catch any more animals, and became angry, and attacked his wife for giving the key away and setting the Woodsprite free. 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 63

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Now the King could not catch any more animals, and became angry, and attacked his wife for giving the key away and setting the Woodsprite free.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not catch, become, attack, give away, set · **To what, where:** more animals, wife, key, Woodsprite

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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:pg62509:17:63
# text = Now the King could not catch any more animals, and became angry, and attacked his wife for giving the key away and setting the Woodsprite free.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **catch** | could | the King | more animals |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **attack** | past |  | King's wife |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 4 | **give away** | gerund |  | the key |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | gerund |  | the Woodsprite |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient woodsprite=Result |

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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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