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title: Out of my belly snakes, worms and all sorts of reptiles will creep;… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of my belly snakes, worms and all sorts of reptiles will creep; jackdaws, magpies and crows will fly: you must catch them and throw them on the pile. Who acts: sorts, belly snakes, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 155

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Out of my belly snakes, worms and all sorts of reptiles will creep; jackdaws, magpies and crows will fly: you must catch them and throw them on the pile.

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**Who acts:** sorts, belly snakes, you · **What happens:** creep, fly, catch, throw · **To what, where:** snakes, pile

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, belly snakes, you), 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:pg62509:2:155
# text = Out of my belly snakes, worms and all sorts of reptiles will creep; jackdaws, magpies and crows will fly: you must catch them and throw them on the pile.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	jackdaws	jackdaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	magpies	magpie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | future | all sorts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of reptiles | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of reptile=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fly** | future | my belly snakes and worms and all sorts and jackdaws and magpies and crows |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | must | you | snakes *= snake* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | snakes *= snake* |  | the pile |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pile=Destination |

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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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