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title: And as soon as he touched it there was a clangour and a clamour thro… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as soon as he touched it there was a clangour and a clamour throughout all the stables as though there were ropes attached to the bridle. Who acts: Iván, ropes. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

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And as soon as he touched it there was a clangour and a clamour throughout all the stables as though there were ropes attached to the bridle.

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**Who acts:** Iván, ropes · **What happens:** touch, be, attach · **To what, where:** bridle, ropes

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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 (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:pg62509:11:3
# text = And as soon as he touched it there was a clangour and a clamour throughout all the stables as though there were ropes attached to the bridle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clangour	clangour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | Iván | bridle |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | ropes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attach** | participle | ropes |  |  |  |  | to the bridle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to bridle=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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