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title: The bear tore her to pieces and said, “Well, Dog, eat as much as you… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bear tore her to pieces and said, “Well, Dog, eat as much as you will, and when everything is in order, come and see me.” Who acts: bear, Dog, everything. 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 59

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The bear tore her to pieces and said, “Well, Dog, eat as much as you will, and when everything is in order, come and see me.”

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**Who acts:** bear, Dog, everything · **What happens:** tore, say, eat, be, come, see · **To what, where:** strength, much, order, bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (bear, Dog, everything), 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:pg62509:3:59
# text = The bear tore her to pieces and said, “Well, Dog, eat as much as you will, and when everything is in order, come and see me.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past | the bear | strength |  |  |  | to pieces | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Dog *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Dog *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | everything |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the bear *= bear* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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