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title: There were two old folks with whom lived two orphan grandchildren, c… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There were two old folks with whom lived two orphan grandchildren, charming little girls. Who acts: two old folks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 88

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There were two old folks with whom lived two orphan grandchildren, charming little girls.

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**Who acts:** two old folks · **What happens:** be, live, charm · **To what, where:** two orphan grandchildren, little girls

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two old folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:31:88
# text = There were two old folks with whom lived two orphan grandchildren, charming little girls.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	orphan	orphan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two old folks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | two old folks | two orphan grandchildren |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grandchild=Location |
| 3 | **charm** | gerund | two old folks *not said here* | little girls |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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