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title: Then this boy fell into such a fearful illness—so terrible that ther… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then this boy fell into such a fearful illness—so terrible that there was nobody who could cure it—and it was beyond the skill of the physicians; there was no understanding of it. Who acts: boy, nobody, illness, understanding. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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Then this boy fell into such a fearful illness—so terrible that there was nobody who could cure it—and it was beyond the skill of the physicians; there was no understanding of it.

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**Who acts:** boy, nobody, illness, understanding · **What happens:** fall, be, cure, understand · **To what, where:** fearful illness, illness

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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 (boy, nobody, illness, understanding), 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:pg62509:13:43
# text = Then this boy fell into such a fearful illness—so terrible that there was nobody who could cure it—and it was beyond the skill of the physicians; there was no understanding of it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | this boy |  |  |  | then | into such fearful illness *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into illness=Result |
| 2 | **be** | past | nobody |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** | could |  | illness |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |
| 4 | **is** | past | illness |  |  |  |  | beyond the skill; of the physicians | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | no understanding of illness |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **understand** |  |  | illness |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=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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