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title: So they loaded plain bricks as well. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they loaded plain bricks as well. Who acts: bricks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 79

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So they loaded plain bricks as well.

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**Who acts:** bricks · **What happens:** load · **To what, where:** plain bricks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bricks), 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:pg62509:21:79
# text = So they loaded plain bricks as well.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | past | bricks *= brick* | plain bricks |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brick=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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