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title: But he had gone only some dozen paces, when a flame blazed out and l… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he had gone only some dozen paces, when a flame blazed out and lit up the wood. Who acts: Cossack, flame. 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 53

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But he had gone only some dozen paces, when a flame blazed out and lit up the wood.

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**Who acts:** Cossack, flame · **What happens:** go, blaze out, lit up · **To what, where:** dozen paces, wood

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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 (Cossack, flame), 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:pg62509:34:53
# text = But he had gone only some dozen paces, when a flame blazed out and lit up the wood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Cossack | dozen paces |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme |
| 2 | **blaze out** | participle | a flame |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lit up** | participle | a flame *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  |  | 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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