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title: So he turned back, and as soon as ever he had taken the golden cage… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he turned back, and as soon as ever he had taken the golden cage there was a clamour and a clangour in the garden as though there were ropes attached to the cage. Who acts: IVÁN, ropes. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 100

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So he turned back, and as soon as ever he had taken the golden cage there was a clamour and a clangour in the garden as though there were ropes attached to the cage.

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**Who acts:** IVÁN, ropes · **What happens:** turn back, take, be, attach · **To what, where:** golden cage, ropes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IVÁN, ropes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:10:100
# text = So he turned back, and as soon as ever he had taken the golden cage there was a clamour and a clangour in the garden as though there were ropes attached to the cage.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clangour	clangour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
32	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | IVÁN *= iván* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | IVÁN *= iván* | the golden cage |  |  | ever | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | ropes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **attach** | participle |  | ropes *not said here* |  |  |  | to the cage | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cage=Co-Patient |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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