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title: Well, the Soldier arrived at home, greeted his family, and rejoiced… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, the Soldier arrived at home, greeted his family, and rejoiced greatly at finding they were all in good health. Who acts: Soldier, families. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 54

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Well, the Soldier arrived at home, greeted his family, and rejoiced greatly at finding they were all in good health.

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**Who acts:** Soldier, families · **What happens:** arrive, greet, rejoice, find, be · **To what, where:** home, family, good health · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, families), 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:pg22373:47:54
# text = Well, the Soldier arrived at home, greeted his family, and rejoiced greatly at finding they were all in good health.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the Soldier |  |  | home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the Soldier *not said here* | SOLDIER's family |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoice** | past | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | families *= family* |  |  | good health |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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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