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title: So he did; but, so far from being spat upon by every passer-by, ever… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he did; but, so far from being spat upon by every passer-by, every one brought her fine loaves and pasties. Who acts: King, passer, one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 67

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So he did; but, so far from being spat upon by every passer-by, every one brought her fine loaves and pasties.

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**Who acts:** King, passer, one · **What happens:** do, spat, bring · **To what, where:** fine loaves, passer

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, passer, one), 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:pg62509:32:67
# text = So he did; but, so far from being spat upon by every passer-by, every one brought her fine loaves and pasties.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	spat	spat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	passer	passer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pasties	pasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spat** | gerund · passive | every passer |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | past | every one | fine loaves and pasties | passer |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination loaf=Theme |

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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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