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title: [23] He felt thirsty, and wanted to drink, got off the sleeping benc… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [23] He felt thirsty, and wanted to drink, got off the sleeping bench, and there were newts running about on the floor. Who acts: man, newts. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 107

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\[23\] He felt thirsty, and wanted to drink, got off the sleeping bench, and there were newts running about on the floor.

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**Who acts:** man, newts · **What happens:** feel, want, drink, get off, be, run about · **To what, where:** 23, sleeping bench, floor

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, newts), 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:pg62509:18:107
# text = [23] He felt thirsty, and wanted to drink, got off the sleeping bench, and there were newts running about on the floor.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	newts	newt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | man | 23 |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get off** | participle | man *not said here* | the sleeping bench |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bench=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | newts |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run about** | gerund | newts *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |

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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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