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title: And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace, driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsarévichi and princes’ sons, _boyárs_ and noblemen, military folk and civil. Who acts: father, folk. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, w
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 147

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And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace, driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsarévichi and princes’ sons, \_boyárs\_ and noblemen, military folk and civil.

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**Who acts:** father, folk · **What happens:** say, throng up, drive up, come · **To what, where:** this, gates, sides, Tsarévichi, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, folk), 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:pg62509:16:148
# text = And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace, driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsarévichi and princes’ sons, _boyárs_ and noblemen, military folk and civil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thronged	throng	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Tsarévichi	Tsarévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	noblemen	nobleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | father | this |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **throng up** | past | all folk |  |  | the gates of the palace |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |
| 3 | **drive up** | gerund | all folk *not said here* |  |  | all sides |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from side=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  | Tsarévichi |  | foot |  | princes's sons and boyárs and noblemen and military folk *conj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=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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