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title: The oven rests on a brick or tile foundation, about eighteen inches… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The oven rests on a brick or tile foundation, about eighteen inches high, with a semicircular hollow space below. Who acts: oven. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 163

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The oven rests on a brick or tile foundation, about eighteen inches high, with a semicircular hollow space below.

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**Who acts:** oven · **What happens:** rest · **To what, where:** brick

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oven), 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:pg62509:39:163
# text = The oven rests on a brick or tile foundation, about eighteen inches high, with a semicircular hollow space below.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	semicircular	semicircular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present | the oven |  |  | a brick or tile foundation |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=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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