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title: In the standing wood, in the grey-clad forest, stands a little hut,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the standing wood, in the grey-clad forest, stands a little hut, not thatched, not wattled; and, in the little hut, lies the evil witch of Kíev. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 43

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In the standing wood, in the grey-clad forest, stands a little hut, not thatched, not wattled; and, in the little hut, lies the evil witch of Kíev.

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**What happens:** stand, not thatch, not wattle, lie · **To what, where:** little hut, standing wood, evil witch

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:40:43
# text = In the standing wood, in the grey-clad forest, stands a little hut, not thatched, not wattled; and, in the little hut, lies the evil witch of Kíev.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	clad	clad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	wattled	wattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | a little hut |  | the standing wood and the grey clad forest |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in wood=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **thatch** | participle |  | a little hut *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **wattle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  | the evil witch of Kíev |  | the little hut |  |  | tree rules |

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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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