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description: So he threw the comb into the field, and then there rustled out of the earth a thick oak forest, every tree thicker than the other. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 12

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So he threw the comb into the field, and then there rustled out of the earth a thick oak forest, every tree thicker than the other.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** throw, rustle · **To what, where:** comb, field, thick oak forest, earth

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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:pg62509:23:12
# text = So he threw the comb into the field, and then there rustled out of the earth a thick oak forest, every tree thicker than the other.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Iván | the comb |  |  |  | into the field *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer comb=Theme into field=Result |
| 2 | **rustle** | past | Iván *not said here* | a thick oak forest |  | the earth; there | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Location |

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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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