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title: And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow, and rushed him out the back way. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 100

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And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow, and rushed him out the back way.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** scamper up, lay, rush out, hold · **To what, where:** laid hold, Rich, poor old fellow

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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:pg62509:8:100
# text = And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow, and rushed him out the back way.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scamper up** | participle | all servants | laid hold of the poor old fellow |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rush out** | past |  | Rich |  |  |  | the back way *obl:unmarked* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the poor old fellow |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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