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title: Once upon a time there was a Soldier who served God and the great Go… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there was a Soldier who served God and the great Gosudar for fifteen years, without ever setting eyes on his parents. Who acts: Soldier. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 42

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Once upon a time there was a Soldier who served God and the great Gosudar for fifteen years, without ever setting eyes on his parents.

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**Who acts:** Soldier · **What happens:** be, serve, set · **To what, where:** God, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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:pg22373:47:42
# text = Once upon a time there was a Soldier who served God and the great Gosudar for fifteen years, without ever setting eyes on his parents.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Gosudar	Gosudar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a Soldier |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | past | a Soldier | God and the great Gosudar |  |  | year |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
| 3 | **set** | gerund | a Soldier *not said here* | eyes |  |  | ever | on SOLDIER's parents | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on parent=Destination |

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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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