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title: When you come to the house where the lads have died, scatter hot spa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When you come to the house where the lads have died, scatter hot sparks into a pot and put the piece of my shirt there, then close the door and at the breath of it they will revive at once.” Who acts: you, lads. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its depende
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

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When you come to the house where the lads have died, scatter hot sparks into a pot and put the piece of my shirt there, then close the door and at the breath of it they will revive at once.”

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**Who acts:** you, lads · **What happens:** come, die, scatter, put, close, revive · **To what, where:** house, hot sparks, pot, shirt, door, breath

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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 (you, lads), 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:pg62509:2:79
# text = When you come to the house where the lads have died, scatter hot sparks into a pot and put the piece of my shirt there, then close the door and at the breath of it they will revive at once.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	revive	revive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | you |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | the lads |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **scatter** | imperative | you *not said here* | hot sparks |  | a pot |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spark=Theme into pot=Destination |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my shirt |  | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |
| 5 | **close** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door |  |  | then |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 6 | **revive** | future | lads *= lad* |  |  | the breath of breath |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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