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title: At last the rout was over, and the princesses bade farewell to their… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the rout was over, and the princesses bade farewell to their cavaliers, promised to come another night, turned back home, undressed and lay down to sleep. Who acts: rout, princesses bade. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

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At last the rout was over, and the princesses bade farewell to their cavaliers, promised to come another night, turned back home, undressed and lay down to sleep.

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**Who acts:** rout, princesses bade · **What happens:** be, promise, come, turn back, undress, lay down · **To what, where:** last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rout, princesses bade), 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:pg62509:14:16
# text = At last the rout was over, and the princesses bade farewell to their cavaliers, promised to come another night, turned back home, undressed and lay down to sleep.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rout	rout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	undressed	undress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	down	down	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rout |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the princesses bade to guests's cavaliers |  |  | last |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the princesses bade to guests's cavaliers *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **undress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lay down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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