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title: When the soldier saw the old woman he cried out to her, “Here, stop,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the soldier saw the old woman he cried out to her, “Here, stop, you old devil! Who acts: soldier, Ho. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 78

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When the soldier saw the old woman he cried out to her, “Here, stop, you old devil!

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**Who acts:** soldier, Ho · **What happens:** see, cry out, stop · **To what, where:** old woman, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (soldier, Ho), 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:pg62509:19:78
# text = When the soldier saw the old woman he cried out to her, “Here, stop, you old devil!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the soldier | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Ho |  | woman |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | woman |  | here |  | old devil *xcomp* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality |

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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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