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title: There there is a mangy foal who will be rolling in the dung: steal h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There there is a mangy foal who will be rolling in the dung: steal him; and, at the deep of midnight, leave the house.” Who acts: mangy foal, deep. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 76

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There there is a mangy foal who will be rolling in the dung: steal him; and, at the deep of midnight, leave the house.”

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**Who acts:** mangy foal, deep · **What happens:** be, roll, steal, leave · **To what, where:** dung, Bába, house

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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 (mangy foal, deep), 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:pg62509:24:76
# text = There there is a mangy foal who will be rolling in the dung: steal him; and, at the deep of midnight, leave the house.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mangy	mangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **be** | present | a mangy foal |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | future · progressive | a mangy foal |  |  | the dung |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dung=Trajectory |
| 3 | **steal** | infinitive | a mangy foal *not said here* | Bába |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | the deep of midnight | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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