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title: “Thrust your pike into the flame: I will jump out on to it.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thrust your pike into the flame: I will jump out on to it.” Who acts: you, fair maiden standing. 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 57

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“Thrust your pike into the flame: I will jump out on to it.”

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**Who acts:** you, fair maiden standing · **What happens:** thrust, jump out · **To what, where:** pike, flame

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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 (you, fair maiden standing), 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:pg62509:34:57
# text = “Thrust your pike into the flame: I will jump out on to it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrust** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your pike |  | the flame |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme |
| 2 | **jump out** *in a quote* | future | a fair maiden standing *= standing* |  |  | flame |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |

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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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