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title: So the peasant cut off the left lappet from the shroud and gave him… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the peasant cut off the left lappet from the shroud and gave him back the coffin lid. Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 80

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So the peasant cut off the left lappet from the shroud and gave him back the coffin lid.

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**Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** cut off, give back · **To what, where:** left lappet, coffin lid, corpse

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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 (peasant), 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:pg62509:2:80
# text = So the peasant cut off the left lappet from the shroud and gave him back the coffin lid.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lappet	lappet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | participle | the peasant | the left lappet from the shroud |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lappet=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give back** | past | the peasant *not said here* | the coffin lid | corpse |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lid=Theme |

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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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