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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 99

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So they went outside to the fields, scattered it according to its nature on the peasant’s lots; and lo and behold! they went and threw all the grains on the white snow—every single grain.

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**Who acts:** midst · **What happens:** go, scatter, accord, throw · **To what, where:** single grain, fields, feast, lots, grains, white snow

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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 (midst), 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:pg62509:35:99
# text = So they went outside to the fields, scattered it according to its nature on the peasant’s lots; and lo and behold! they went and threw all the grains on the white snow—every single grain.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
39	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | midst | every single grain |  | the fields |  | outside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **scatter** | past | midst *not said here* | feast |  | the peasant's lots |  | accord feast's nature | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lot=Destination |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | midst |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past | midst *not said here* | all grains |  | the white snow |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grain=Theme on snow=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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