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description: At that very time there came tidings from the King, that his daughter, the Princess Helena the Fair, had ordered a shrine to be built for her with twelve columns, with twelve rows of beams. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 32

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At that very time there came tidings from the King, that his daughter, the Princess Helena the Fair, had ordered a shrine to be built for her with twelve columns, with twelve rows of beams.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** come, order, build · **To what, where:** tidings, shrine

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg22373:45:32
# text = At that very time there came tidings from the King, that his daughter, the Princess Helena the Fair, had ordered a shrine to be built for her with twelve columns, with twelve rows of beams.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | tidings |  | there | time | from the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tiding=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past · perfect | King's daughter | a shrine |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive · passive | King's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for daughter; with twelve columns and twelve rows of beams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary |

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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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