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title: At that same instant the snake disentangled herself from his neck, s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At that same instant the snake disentangled herself from his neck, struck the grey earth, and turned into the maiden of his soul, vanished from his eyes as though she had never been there. Who acts: snake, wall. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its depend
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 64

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At that same instant the snake disentangled herself from his neck, struck the grey earth, and turned into the maiden of his soul, vanished from his eyes as though she had never been there.

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**Who acts:** snake, wall · **What happens:** disentangle, strike, turn, vanish, not be · **To what, where:** wall, grey earth, same instant, maiden, eyes

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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 (snake, wall), 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:pg62509:34:64
# text = At that same instant the snake disentangled herself from his neck, struck the grey earth, and turned into the maiden of his soul, vanished from his eyes as though she had never been there.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	disentangled	disentangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disentangle** | participle | the snake *not said here* | wall |  |  |  | from Cossack's neck | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from neck=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | past |  | the grey earth |  | that same instant |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | the maiden of Cossack's soul |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory |
| 4 | **vanish** | past |  |  |  | Cossack's eyes |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | wall |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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