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title: But the soldier was not afraid and dived down after him into the pit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the soldier was not afraid and dived down after him into the pit, fell into the deep crevasse, fell down flat and lay for whole days unconscious. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 137

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But the soldier was not afraid and dived down after him into the pit, fell into the deep crevasse, fell down flat and lay for whole days unconscious.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** not be, dive down, fall, fall down, lay · **To what, where:** pit, deep crevasse

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg62509:24:137
# text = But the soldier was not afraid and dived down after him into the pit, fell into the deep crevasse, fell down flat and lay for whole days unconscious.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dive down** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  | the pit | after soldier |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pit=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the deep crevasse *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crevasse=Result |
| 4 | **fall down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down, flat *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for unconscious  whole days | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for unconscious=Beneficiary |

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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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