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title: She arrived at the Accursèd King’s courtyard and began to play the _… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She arrived at the Accursèd King’s courtyard and began to play the _gusli_ so finely as had never been heard or listened to for ages. Who acts: land. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 18

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She arrived at the Accursèd King’s courtyard and began to play the \_gusli\_ so finely as had never been heard or listened to for ages.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** arrive, begin, play, not hear, listen · **To what, where:** courtyard, gusli

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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 (land), 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:pg62509:10:18
# text = She arrived at the Accursèd King’s courtyard and began to play the _gusli_ so finely as had never been heard or listened to for ages.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Accursèd	Accursèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	gusli	gusli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	finely	finely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | land |  |  | the Accursèd King's courtyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* | the gusli |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gusli=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect · passive | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 5 | **listen** | participle | land *not said here* |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for age=Theme |

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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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