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title: So she put the pan on him, and the custard stood there for ages and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she put the pan on him, and the custard stood there for ages and was not ever cooked, only turned sour. Who acts: wife, custard. 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 139

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So she put the pan on him, and the custard stood there for ages and was not ever cooked, only turned sour.

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**Who acts:** wife, custard · **What happens:** put, stand, not cook, turn · **To what, where:** pan

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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 (wife, custard), 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:pg62509:37:141
# text = So she put the pan on him, and the custard stood there for ages and was not ever cooked, only turned sour.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	custard	custard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | wife | the pan |  |  |  | on Crow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on he=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the custard |  |  | there | for ages |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for age=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **cook** | past · passive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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