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title: “Why should we hurl all this good stuff into the well?” the master r… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why should we hurl all this good stuff into the well?” the master replied, “for there are only three pecks, and it will all be thrown away for nothing.” Who acts: we, master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 44

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“Why should we hurl all this good stuff into the well?” the master replied, “for there are only three pecks, and it will all be thrown away for nothing.”

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**Who acts:** we, master · **What happens:** hurl, reply, be, throw away · **To what, where:** good stuff, well, three pecks, master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, master), 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:pg62509:35:44
# text = “Why should we hurl all this good stuff into the well?” the master replied, “for there are only three pecks, and it will all be thrown away for nothing.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pecks	peck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurl** *in a quote* | should | we | all good stuff |  | the well |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme into well=Destination |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | the master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | three pecks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw away** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | master |  |  |  | for nothing; all, away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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