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title: Then the poor nobleman pretended to be as sound asleep as a log, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the poor nobleman pretended to be as sound asleep as a log, and himself kept a keen look out for every noise. Who acts: poor nobleman, sound, nobleman, keen. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 158

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Then the poor nobleman pretended to be as sound asleep as a log, and himself kept a keen look out for every noise.

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**Who acts:** poor nobleman, sound, nobleman, keen · **What happens:** pretend, be, keep, look out · **To what, where:** keen

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor nobleman, sound, nobleman, keen), 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:pg62509:13:158
# text = Then the poor nobleman pretended to be as sound asleep as a log, and himself kept a keen look out for every noise.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | the poor nobleman |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | sound |  |  |  |  | as a log; asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | nobleman | a keen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look out** | infinitive | a keen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for every noise | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for noise=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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