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title: THE BEAR, THE DOG, AND THE CAT — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE BEAR, THE DOG, AND THE CAT A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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THE BEAR, THE DOG, AND THE CAT

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**To what, where:** BEAR

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:3:37
# text = THE BEAR, THE DOG, AND THE CAT
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BEAR	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	DOG	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	CAT	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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