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title: But at last they persuaded her, and she told them: “Every time when… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But at last they persuaded her, and she told them: “Every time when you go out on the chase an ancient hag comes into the hut. Who acts: they, Bába, you, time. 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 2

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But at last they persuaded her, and she told them: “Every time when you go out on the chase an ancient hag comes into the hut.

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**Who acts:** they, Bába, you, time · **What happens:** persuade, tell, go out, come · **To what, where:** Bába, last, them, ancient hag, chase, hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (they, Bába, you, time), 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:pg62509:39:2
# text = But at last they persuaded her, and she told them: “Every time when you go out on the chase an ancient hag comes into the hut.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | they | Bába |  | last |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bába |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | present | you | a ancient hag |  | the chase |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | every time |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hut=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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