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title: P. 168, changed “And Alyósha set out into the open field. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: P. 168, changed “And Alyósha set out into the open field. Who acts: P., Alyósha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 256

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P. 168, changed “And Alyósha set out into the open field.

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**Who acts:** P., Alyósha · **What happens:** change, set out · **To what, where:** open field

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (P., Alyósha), 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:pg62509:41:258
# text = P. 168, changed “And Alyósha set out into the open field.
1	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	168	168	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | P. |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set out** *in a quote* | past | Alyósha |  |  | the open field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=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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