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title: Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burro… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burrow into the ground and do without any _izbá_.” Who acts: Pig. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 1

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Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burrow into the ground and do without any \_izbá\_.”

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**Who acts:** Pig · **What happens:** say, not mind, burrow, do · **To what, where:** frost, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pig), 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:pg62509:31:1
# text = Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burrow into the ground and do without any _izbá_.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	burrow	burrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	izbá	izbá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Pig |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Pig *= pig* | any frost |  |  |  | whatsoever *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frost=Theme |
| 3 | **burrow** *in a quote* | future | the Pig *= pig* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ground=Location |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the Pig *= pig* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any izbá | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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