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description: And then there was a fine sight—heads flying about, blood flowing freely—and within one hour all the field was covered with corpses. Who acts: heads, blood. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 121

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And then there was a fine sight—heads flying about, blood flowing freely—and within one hour all the field was covered with corpses.

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**Who acts:** heads, blood · **What happens:** be, fly, flow, cover · **To what, where:** fine sight, field

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, blood), 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:pg62509:34:121
# text = And then there was a fine sight—heads flying about, blood flowing freely—and within one hour all the field was covered with corpses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a fine sight and heads and blood |  |  |  | heads and blood *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | heads and blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | all field |  |  | hour | with corpses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with corpse=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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