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title: Then the wise woman gnawed and gnawed at this tree, and gnawed and g… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wise woman gnawed and gnawed at this tree, and gnawed and gnawed, broke the two front teeth, and went to the smithy. Who acts: wise woman. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 155

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Then the wise woman gnawed and gnawed at this tree, and gnawed and gnawed, broke the two front teeth, and went to the smithy.

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**Who acts:** wise woman · **What happens:** gnaw, break, go · **To what, where:** two front teeth, smithy

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise woman), 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:pg62509:36:155
# text = Then the wise woman gnawed and gnawed at this tree, and gnawed and gnawed, broke the two front teeth, and went to the smithy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gnaw** | participle | the wise woman |  |  |  | then |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gnaw** | participle | the wise woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at this tree | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at tree=Patient |
| 3 | **gnaw** | participle | the wise woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gnaw** | participle | the wise woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **break** | past |  | the two front teeth |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the smithy |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial\_Location |

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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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