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title: The sister went farther under the earth, and she saw a little hut st… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sister went farther under the earth, and she saw a little hut standing on cocks’ feet and turning round. Who acts: sister, little hut. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 19

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The sister went farther under the earth, and she saw a little hut standing on cocks’ feet and turning round.

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**Who acts:** sister, little hut · **What happens:** go, see, stand, turn round · **To what, where:** little hut, feet

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, little hut), 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:pg62509:9:19
# text = The sister went farther under the earth, and she saw a little hut standing on cocks’ feet and turning round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the sister |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | sister | a little hut |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a little hut *not said here* |  |  | cocks's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location |
| 4 | **turn round** | gerund | a little hut *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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