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description: Then she laid hold of me and crossed herself, and after three livelong days I got out, the pigs poking me about and I unable to escape! Who acts: woman, I, pigs. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 111

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Then she laid hold of me and crossed herself, and after three livelong days I got out, the pigs poking me about and I unable to escape!

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**Who acts:** woman, I, pigs · **What happens:** lay, cross, get out, poke, escape, hold · **To what, where:** hold, woman, pigs, me

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, pigs), 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:pg62509:37:113
# text = Then she laid hold of me and crossed herself, and after three livelong days I got out, the pigs poking me about and I unable to escape!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	livelong	livelong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | woman | hold of me |  |  | then |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 2 | **cross** | past | woman *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 3 | **get out** | past | I | the pigs |  |  | day | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **poke** | gerund | the pigs *not said here* | me |  |  |  | about *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Instrument |
| 5 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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