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title: The blind man sprang out of the hut and said: “We must build a big f… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The blind man sprang out of the hut and said: “We must build a big faggot-heap and burn the old hag and scatter her ashes to the four winds.” Who acts: blind man, We. 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 20

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The blind man sprang out of the hut and said: “We must build a big faggot-heap and burn the old hag and scatter her ashes to the four winds.”

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**Who acts:** blind man, We · **What happens:** spring out, say, build, burn, scatter · **To what, where:** hut, big faggot heap, old hag, ashes · **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 (blind man, We), 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:pg62509:39:20
# text = The blind man sprang out of the hut and said: “We must build a big faggot-heap and burn the old hag and scatter her ashes to the four winds.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring out** | past | the blind man | the hut |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hut=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the blind man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **build** *in a quote* | must | We | a big faggot heap |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product |
| 4 | **burn** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* | the old hag |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hag=Theme |
| 5 | **scatter** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* | Bába's ashes |  |  |  | to the four winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=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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