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title: So the mother and daughter carried firewood in, logs of oak and mapl… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the mother and daughter carried firewood in, logs of oak and maple; made the oven ready till the flames shot up merrily. Who acts: mother, flames. 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 51

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So the mother and daughter carried firewood in, logs of oak and maple; made the oven ready till the flames shot up merrily.

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**Who acts:** mother, flames · **What happens:** carry in, make, shoot up · **To what, where:** firewood, oven

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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 (mother, flames), 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:pg62509:9:51
# text = So the mother and daughter carried firewood in, logs of oak and maple; made the oven ready till the flames shot up merrily.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry in** | past | the mother and daughter | firewood |  |  |  | logs of oak and maple *obj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme firewood=Beneficiary log=Value |
| 2 | **make** | past | the mother and daughter *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oven=Product |
| 3 | **shoot up** | past | the flames |  |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn eat-39.1 «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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