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description: They filled up the plates and again emptied them, and they went on filling plates until there was not any money left: but there were ever so many plates over. Who acts: neighbour, money, many plates. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree an
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 112

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They filled up the plates and again emptied them, and they went on filling plates until there was not any money left: but there were ever so many plates over.

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**Who acts:** neighbour, money, many plates · **What happens:** fill up, empty, go, be, leave · **To what, where:** plates, neighbour, filling plates, money

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, money, many plates), 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:pg62509:22:112
# text = They filled up the plates and again emptied them, and they went on filling plates until there was not any money left: but there were ever so many plates over.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill up** | past | neighbour | the plates |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 2 | **empty** | past | neighbour *not said here* | neighbour |  |  | again |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | neighbour |  |  | filling plates |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on plate=Location |
| 4 | **be** | past | any money |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  | any money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | many plates |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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