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title: When she came to the place where the grey Wolf sat behind the railin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she came to the place where the grey Wolf sat behind the railing, suddenly the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden, seized Princess Eléna the Fair, leapt back and ran away with all his might and strength. Who acts: Fair, grey Wolf. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 17

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When she came to the place where the grey Wolf sat behind the railing, suddenly the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden, seized Princess Eléna the Fair, leapt back and ran away with all his might and strength.

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**Who acts:** Fair, grey Wolf · **What happens:** come, sit, seize, leapt back, run away · **To what, where:** grey Wolf leapt, place, railing, Princess Eléna

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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 (Fair, grey Wolf), 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:pg62509:11:17
# text = When she came to the place where the grey Wolf sat behind the railing, suddenly the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden, seized Princess Eléna the Fair, leapt back and ran away with all his might and strength.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	railing	railing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	leapt	leapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Fair | the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the grey Wolf |  |  | the railing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind railing=Location |
| 3 | **seize** | past |  | Princess Eléna |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eléna=Theme |
| 4 | **leapt back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with Eléna's strength; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with strength=Material |

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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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