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title: So she sent all the bargainers away, and to show how pleased she was… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she sent all the bargainers away, and to show how pleased she was, rained blows on Vasilísa. Who acts: VASILÍSA. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 63

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So she sent all the bargainers away, and to show how pleased she was, rained blows on Vasilísa.

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**Who acts:** VASILÍSA · **What happens:** send, show, be, rain · **To what, where:** bargainers · **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 (VASILÍSA), 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:pg62509:14:63
# text = So she sent all the bargainers away, and to show how pleased she was, rained blows on Vasilísa.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bargainers	bargainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	rained	rain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* | all bargainers |  |  |  | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargainer=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rained blows on Vasilísa *conj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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