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title: So Sorrow crept into the wheel, and the merchant took the other oak… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Sorrow crept into the wheel, and the merchant took the other oak wedge and drove it into the hub from the other side, and threw the wheel, with Sorrow inside, into the river. Who acts: Sorrow, merchant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 97

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So Sorrow crept into the wheel, and the merchant took the other oak wedge and drove it into the hub from the other side, and threw the wheel, with Sorrow inside, into the river.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, merchant · **What happens:** creep, take, drive, throw · **To what, where:** wheel, other oak wedge, hub, river

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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 (Sorrow, merchant), 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:pg62509:36:97
# text = So Sorrow crept into the wheel, and the merchant took the other oak wedge and drove it into the hub from the other side, and threw the wheel, with Sorrow inside, into the river.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sorrow	Sorrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wedge	wedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Sorrow |  |  | the wheel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wheel=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | the merchant | the other oak wedge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedge=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | the merchant *not said here* | wheel |  | the hub |  | from the other side | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into hub=Destination from side=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | the wheel |  |  |  | into the river *result*; with Sorrow; inside *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer wheel=Theme into river=Result |

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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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