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title: He let the tempered dart fall on the earth, and it tore into the ear… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He let the tempered dart fall on the earth, and it tore into the earth fifty feet. Who acts: Ilyá, tempered dart, dart. 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 64

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He let the tempered dart fall on the earth, and it tore into the earth fifty feet.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá, tempered dart, dart · **What happens:** let, temper, fall, tore · **To what, where:** earth, fifty feet

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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 (Ilyá, tempered dart, dart), 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:pg62509:31:64
# text = He let the tempered dart fall on the earth, and it tore into the earth fifty feet.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Ilyá |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | present | the tempered dart |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 4 | **tore** | past | dart | fifty feet |  | the earth |  |  | 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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