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title: Then the servant had a sack sewn, and the Prince put into it, and ca… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the servant had a sack sewn, and the Prince put into it, and cast him into the water. Who acts: servant, Prince. 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 11

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Then the servant had a sack sewn, and the Prince put into it, and cast him into the water.

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**Who acts:** servant, Prince · **What happens:** have, sew, put, cast · **To what, where:** sack, Prince, water

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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 (servant, Prince), 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:pg62509:18:11
# text = Then the servant had a sack sewn, and the Prince put into it, and cast him into the water.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the servant | a sack |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
| 2 | **sew** | participle |  | a sack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | past | the Prince |  |  | sack |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cast** | infinitive | the servant *not said here* | Prince |  | the water |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into water=Product |

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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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