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title: In some time, maybe long, maybe short, he found himself in a wood so… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In some time, maybe long, maybe short, he found himself in a wood so wild, so dreamy, that he could not get out of it anywhere, and he began killing time and feeding on berries and roots. Who acts: general. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 16

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In some time, maybe long, maybe short, he found himself in a wood so wild, so dreamy, that he could not get out of it anywhere, and he began killing time and feeding on berries and roots.

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**Who acts:** general · **What happens:** find, not get out, begin, kill, feed · **To what, where:** general, wood

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (general), 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:pg62509:19:16
# text = In some time, maybe long, maybe short, he found himself in a wood so wild, so dreamy, that he could not get out of it anywhere, and he began killing time and feeding on berries and roots.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
36	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	conj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | general | general |  | a wood |  | wild *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **get out** | could | general | wood |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | general |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kill** | gerund | general *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **feed** | gerund | general *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on berries and roots | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on berry=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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