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title: The old woman saw the cloth and admired it, and said: “Oh, my child!… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman saw the cloth and admired it, and said: “Oh, my child! nobody except the Tsar could ever wear such fine linen; I will take it to Court.” Who acts: old woman, nobody. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 39

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The old woman saw the cloth and admired it, and said: “Oh, my child! nobody except the Tsar could ever wear such fine linen; I will take it to Court.”

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**Who acts:** old woman, nobody · **What happens:** see, admire, say, wear, take · **To what, where:** cloth, such fine linen, linen, Court · **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 (old woman, nobody), 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:pg62509:15:39
# text = The old woman saw the cloth and admired it, and said: “Oh, my child! nobody except the Tsar could ever wear such fine linen; I will take it to Court.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
21	except	except	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the old woman | the cloth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **admire** | past | the old woman *not said here* | cloth |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my child *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wear** *in a quote* | could | nobody except the Tsar | such fine linen |  |  | ever |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent linen=Source |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | future | the old woman *= woman* | linen | Court |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to court=Destination |

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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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