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title: And as he went on he began playing with that little head, flinging i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he went on he began playing with that little head, flinging it high up in the air and catching it again on his sharp lance. Who acts: ALYÓSHA. 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 72

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And as he went on he began playing with that little head, flinging it high up in the air and catching it again on his sharp lance.

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**Who acts:** ALYÓSHA · **What happens:** go, begin, play, fling, catch · **To what, where:** head, air, sharp lance

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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 (ALYÓSHA), 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:pg62509:20:72
# text = And as he went on he began playing with that little head, flinging it high up in the air and catching it again on his sharp lance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with that little head | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with head=Theme |
| 4 | **fling** | gerund | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* | head |  | the air |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in air=Destination |
| 5 | **catch** | gerund | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* | head |  | ALYÓSHA's sharp lance | again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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