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description: Then he returned to his room, and sat there as though nothing had happened, whilst his servant boasted that he had gone to the battle and slain the foe. Who acts: son, nothing, servant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 4

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Then he returned to his room, and sat there as though nothing had happened, whilst his servant boasted that he had gone to the battle and slain the foe.

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**Who acts:** son, nothing, servant · **What happens:** return, sit, happen, boast, go, slain · **To what, where:** battle, foe

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, nothing, servant), 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:pg62509:18:4
# text = Then he returned to his room, and sat there as though nothing had happened, whilst his servant boasted that he had gone to the battle and slain the foe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	slain	slain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | son |  |  |  | then | to son's room *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 2 | **sit** | past | son *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | son's servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | son |  |  | the battle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to battle=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **slain** | infinitive | son *not said here* | the foe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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