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title: They hustled the Little Fool, thrust her about this way and that and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They hustled the Little Fool, thrust her about this way and that and forced her to work. Who acts: WOLF, two. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 107

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They hustled the Little Fool, thrust her about this way and that and forced her to work.

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**Who acts:** WOLF, two · **What happens:** hustle, thrust, force, work · **To what, where:** Little Fool, two

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, two), 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:pg62509:5:109
# text = They hustled the Little Fool, thrust her about this way and that and forced her to work.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hustled	hustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hustle** | past | WOLF | the Little Fool |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Patient |
| 2 | **thrust** | infinitive | WOLF *not said here* | two |  |  |  | about this way  that | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **force** | past | WOLF *not said here* | two |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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