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description: And the old man put both halves on the fire, and out of the fire there then crept snakes, frogs, and all sorts of reptiles. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 48

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And the old man put both halves on the fire, and out of the fire there then crept snakes, frogs, and all sorts of reptiles.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** put, creep, sort · **To what, where:** halves, fire, snakes, reptiles

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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 (old man), 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:pg62509:22:48
# text = And the old man put both halves on the fire, and out of the fire there then crept snakes, frogs, and all sorts of reptiles.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive | the old man | both halves |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 2 | **creep** | past |  | snakes and frogs |  | the fire | then | all sorts of reptiles *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location snake=Theme |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | reptiles |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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