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title: In the evening, when the little sun was setting fast to the West, Pr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening, when the little sun was setting fast to the West, Princess Eléna the Fair went into the garden to take a walk with all of her maids of honour and servants and attendants and all the _boyáryni_[17] around. Who acts: little sun, Fair. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 16

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In the evening, when the little sun was setting fast to the West, Princess Eléna the Fair went into the garden to take a walk with all of her maids of honour and servants and attendants and all the \_boyáryni\_\[17\] around.

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**Who acts:** little sun, Fair · **What happens:** set, go, take · **To what, where:** garden, walk

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sun, Fair), 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:pg62509:11:16
# text = In the evening, when the little sun was setting fast to the West, Princess Eléna the Fair went into the garden to take a walk with all of her maids of honour and servants and attendants and all the _boyáryni_[17] around.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	boyáryni	boyáryni	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the little sun |  |  |  |  | to the West and Princess; fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Fair |  |  | the garden | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Fair *not said here* | a walk |  |  |  | with all of Fair's maids of honour and servants and attendants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=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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