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description: So they turned back home, and they had hardly sat down when the thunder clapped and the ceiling was divided into two, and a Crow flew in. Who acts: skies, thunder, Crow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 60

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So they turned back home, and they had hardly sat down when the thunder clapped and the ceiling was divided into two, and a Crow flew in.

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**Who acts:** skies, thunder, Crow · **What happens:** turn back, sit down, clap, divide, fly in · **To what, where:** ceiling, two

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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 (skies, thunder, Crow), 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:pg62509:23:60
# text = So they turned back home, and they had hardly sat down when the thunder clapped and the ceiling was divided into two, and a Crow flew in.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | skies *= sky* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit down** | past · perfect | skies *= sky* |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clap** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **divide** | past · passive |  | the ceiling |  | two |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **fly in** | past | a Crow |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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