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description: She was friendlily received, and the sisters told her that ever since she had gone away they had had no fire; they were able to make none; and all they borrowed of their neighbours went out as soon as it came into the room. Who acts: sisters, light, all, fire. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

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She was friendlily received, and the sisters told her that ever since she had gone away they had had no fire; they were able to make none; and all they borrowed of their neighbours went out as soon as it came into the room.

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**Who acts:** sisters, light, all, fire · **What happens:** receive, tell, go, have, be, make · **To what, where:** light, fire, none, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, light, all, fire), 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:pg62509:15:27
# text = She was friendlily received, and the sisters told her that ever since she had gone away they had had no fire; they were able to make none; and all they borrowed of their neighbours went out as soon as it came into the room.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	friendlily	friendlily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
13	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive |  | light |  |  |  | friendlily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the sisters |  | light |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | light |  |  |  | ever |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past · perfect | sisters *= sister* | no fire |  |  |  | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset none=Product |
| 7 | **borrow** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | of sisters's neighbours | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **go out** | past | all |  |  |  |  | out, soon *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **come** | past | fire |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |

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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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