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title: “The crow has smitten the house of bronze, has pecked the fiery snak… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The crow has smitten the house of bronze, has pecked the fiery snake to death, has gained the seven _pud_ key. 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 49

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“The crow has smitten the house of bronze, has pecked the fiery snake to death, has gained the seven \_pud\_ key.

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**What happens:** smite, peck, gain · **To what, where:** crow, fiery snake, seven pud

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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:pg62509:40:49
# text = “The crow has smitten the house of bronze, has pecked the fiery snake to death, has gained the seven _pud_ key.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
26	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	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 | **smite** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the crow |  |  |  | the house of bronze *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer house=Result |
| 2 | **peck** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | the fiery snake |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent snake=Patient to death=Result |
| 3 | **gain** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | the seven pud |  |  |  | key *conj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pud=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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