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title: One way the waters tossed, On the other lay woe, On the third side n… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One way the waters tossed, On the other lay woe, On the third side naught but moss, On the fourth side—Oh! Who acts: waters. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 132

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One way the waters tossed, On the other lay woe, On the third side naught but moss, On the fourth side—Oh!

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**Who acts:** waters · **What happens:** toss · **To what, where:** One way, other lay woe

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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:pg62509:4:132
# text = One way the waters tossed, On the other lay woe, On the third side naught but moss, On the fourth side—Oh!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	lay	lay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	On	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past | the waters | One way |  | the other lay woe |  | on naught  moss; on the fourth side | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on woe=Destination |

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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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