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title: All the young folks were bustling about, washing themselves clean, c… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the young folks were bustling about, washing themselves clean, combing their hair, and considering to whom should the great honour fall. Who acts: young folks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 108

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All the young folks were bustling about, washing themselves clean, combing their hair, and considering to whom should the great honour fall.

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**Who acts:** young folks · **What happens:** bustle, wash, comb, consider · **To what, where:** folks, hair

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young folks), 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:pg62509:26:108
# text = All the young folks were bustling about, washing themselves clean, combing their hair, and considering to whom should the great honour fall.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bustling	bustle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bustle** | past · progressive | all young folks |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund | all young folks *not said here* | folks *= folk* |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **comb** | gerund | all young folks *not said here* | folks's hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 4 | **consider** | gerund | all young folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |

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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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