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title: As soon as ever she came near she was breathing out fire and fury, g… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as ever she came near she was breathing out fire and fury, gnashing her teeth and brandishing her fists. Who acts: woman. 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 23

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As soon as ever she came near she was breathing out fire and fury, gnashing her teeth and brandishing her fists.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** come, breathe out, gnash, brandish · **To what, where:** fire, teeth, fists

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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 (woman), 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:pg62509:26:23
# text = As soon as ever she came near she was breathing out fire and fury, gnashing her teeth and brandishing her fists.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	gnashing	gnash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brandishing	brandish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | woman |  |  |  | ever | near, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe out** | past · progressive | woman | fire and fury |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **gnash** | gerund | woman *not said here* | woman's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **brandish** | gerund | woman *not said here* | woman's fists |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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