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title: It occurred to him suddenly he might peer out of the window, and he… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It occurred to him suddenly he might peer out of the window, and he saw opposite a big palace, but not one pane of glass was whole. Who acts: feasting, Lord, one pane. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 139

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It occurred to him suddenly he might peer out of the window, and he saw opposite a big palace, but not one pane of glass was whole.

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**Who acts:** feasting, Lord, one pane · **What happens:** occur, peer, see, be · **To what, where:** Lord, big palace

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, Lord, one pane), 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:pg62509:12:139
# text = It occurred to him suddenly he might peer out of the window, and he saw opposite a big palace, but not one pane of glass was whole.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	peer	peer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	opposite	opposite	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | feasting |  | Lord |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **peer** | might | Lord |  |  |  |  | out the window; suddenly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out window=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Lord | opposite big palace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | one pane of glass |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | tree rules |

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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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