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title: So the young shepherd broke a bulrush, made a pipe of it, and a wond… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young shepherd broke a bulrush, made a pipe of it, and a wonderful wonder happened, a marvellous marvel: the pipe began of itself to sing and to speak. Who acts: young shepherd, wonderful wonder, pipe. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 137

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So the young shepherd broke a bulrush, made a pipe of it, and a wonderful wonder happened, a marvellous marvel: the pipe began of itself to sing and to speak.

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**Who acts:** young shepherd, wonderful wonder, pipe · **What happens:** break, make, happen, begin, sing, speak · **To what, where:** bulrush, pipe, marvellous marvel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young shepherd, wonderful wonder, pipe), 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:pg62509:5:139
# text = So the young shepherd broke a bulrush, made a pipe of it, and a wonderful wonder happened, a marvellous marvel: the pipe began of itself to sing and to speak.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bulrush	bulrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the young shepherd | a bulrush |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bulrush=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | the young shepherd *not said here* | a pipe of pipe |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product |
| 3 | **happen** | past | a wonderful wonder | a marvellous marvel |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the pipe |  |  |  |  | of pipe | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the pipe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the pipe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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