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title: He went, and on his way he met such an old, old lady, so old that on… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went, and on his way he met such an old, old lady, so old that on whichever side the wind blew, she inclined. Who acts: soldier, wind. 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 86

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He went, and on his way he met such an old, old lady, so old that on whichever side the wind blew, she inclined.

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**Who acts:** soldier, wind · **What happens:** go, meet, blow, incline · **To what, where:** old old lady, way, side

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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 (soldier, wind), 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:pg62509:13:86
# text = He went, and on his way he met such an old, old lady, so old that on whichever side the wind blew, she inclined.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	whichever	whichever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	inclined	incline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | soldier | such old old lady |  | soldier's way |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  | whichever side |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **incline** | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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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