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title: Instead of weeping there began to be happiness and rejoicing; the So… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 59

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Instead of weeping there began to be happiness and rejoicing; the Soldier was hospitably treated and well rewarded.

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**What happens:** weep, begin, be, treat, reward · **To what, where:** happiness, Soldier

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:54:59
# text = Instead of weeping there began to be happiness and rejoicing; the Soldier was hospitably treated and well rewarded.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | happiness and rejoicing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **treat** | past · passive |  | the Soldier |  |  |  | hospitably *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **reward** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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 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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