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title: When the tailor heard the chase coming after him, and saw that it wa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the tailor heard the chase coming after him, and saw that it was a disagreeable business, he scaled up a tree as fast as he could. Who acts: tailor, chase. 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 97

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When the tailor heard the chase coming after him, and saw that it was a disagreeable business, he scaled up a tree as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** tailor, chase · **What happens:** hear, come, see, be, scale up · **To what, where:** chase, disagreeable business, tree · **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 (tailor, chase), 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:pg62509:5:99
# text = When the tailor heard the chase coming after him, and saw that it was a disagreeable business, he scaled up a tree as fast as he could.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	scaled	scale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the tailor | the chase |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chase=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the chase *not said here* |  |  |  | after TAILOR |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | chase | a disagreeable business |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **scale up** | past | TAILOR | a tree |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source |

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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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