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title: The peasant’s hands shook with fear, and the withy broke, and the sq… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The peasant’s hands shook with fear, and the withy broke, and the squint-eyed woman clashed down as before into Hell. Who acts: hands, withy, eyed 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 24

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The peasant’s hands shook with fear, and the withy broke, and the squint-eyed woman clashed down as before into Hell.

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**Who acts:** hands, withy, eyed woman · **What happens:** shook, break, clash down · **To what, where:** Hell

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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 (hands, withy, eyed 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:pg62509:26:24
# text = The peasant’s hands shook with fear, and the withy broke, and the squint-eyed woman clashed down as before into Hell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shook	shook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	withy	withy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	squint	squint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	clashed	clash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shook** | present | the peasant's hands |  |  |  |  | with fear | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | past | the withy |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clash down** | participle | the eyed woman |  |  | Hell |  | before *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hell=Location |

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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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