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title: So the soldier marched into the palace, and settled himself down in… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the soldier marched into the palace, and settled himself down in the biggest saloon, took his knapsack off and his sabre, put the knapsack in a corner and the sabre on a hand-peg, sat down on a chair, put his hand into his pocket for his tobacco-pouch, lit his pipe, and smoked at his ease. Who ac
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 158

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So the soldier marched into the palace, and settled himself down in the biggest saloon, took his knapsack off and his sabre, put the knapsack in a corner and the sabre on a hand-peg, sat down on a chair, put his hand into his pocket for his tobacco-pouch, lit his pipe, and smoked at his ease.

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**Who acts:** soldier, sabre · **What happens:** march, settle down, take off, put, sit down, light · **To what, where:** palace, two, biggest saloon, knapsack, corner, chair

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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 (soldier, sabre), 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:pg62509:12:158
# text = So the soldier marched into the palace, and settled himself down in the biggest saloon, took his knapsack off and his sabre, put the knapsack in a corner and the sabre on a hand-peg, sat down on a chair, put his hand into his pocket for his tobacco-pouch, lit his pipe, and smoked at his ease.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
55	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
65	at	at	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  | into the palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result |
| 2 | **settle down** | past | the soldier *not said here* | two |  | the biggest saloon |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take off** | past | the soldier *not said here* | two's knapsack |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | two's sabre | the knapsack |  | a corner and the sabre on a hand peg |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  | a chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | two's hand |  | two's pocket |  | for two's tobacco pouch | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 7 | **light** | past | the soldier *not said here* | two's pipe |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product |
| 8 | **smoke** | participle | the soldier *not said here* |  |  | two's ease |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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