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description: Then the rope broke off, and the guilty soul once more flew down into the burning pitch. Who acts: rope, guilty soul. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 21

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Then the rope broke off, and the guilty soul once more flew down into the burning pitch.

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**Who acts:** rope, guilty soul · **What happens:** break off, fly down, burn · **To what, where:** burning pitch

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, guilty soul), 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:pg62509:20:21
# text = Then the rope broke off, and the guilty soul once more flew down into the burning pitch.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	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 | **break off** | past | the rope |  |  |  | then |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fly down** | past | the guilty soul |  |  |  |  | into the burning pitch *result*; down, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pitch=Result |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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