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title: Then again the apple rolled on the saucer, the crystal on the silver… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then again the apple rolled on the saucer, the crystal on the silver, and the sky was red on the saucer, and little sun after little sun made its round, and the stars gathered on their dance. Who acts: sky, apple, stars, saucer. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6,
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

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Then again the apple rolled on the saucer, the crystal on the silver, and the sky was red on the saucer, and little sun after little sun made its round, and the stars gathered on their dance.

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**Who acts:** sky, apple, stars, saucer · **What happens:** roll, be, make, gather, dance · **To what, where:** apple, saucer, dance

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, apple, stars, saucer), 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:pg62509:6:32
# text = Then again the apple rolled on the saucer, the crystal on the silver, and the sky was red on the saucer, and little sun after little sun made its round, and the stars gathered on their dance.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
5	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  | the apple *not said here* |  | the saucer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  | the saucer |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the apple |  |  |  |  | little sun *nsubj*; round *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 4 | **gather** | past | the stars |  |  | saucer's dance |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dance** |  | saucer |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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