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title: And he went on a few steps farther; and he saw maidens ladling water… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went on a few steps farther; and he saw maidens ladling water out of one well into another. Who acts: Lord, maidens. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 146

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And he went on a few steps farther; and he saw maidens ladling water out of one well into another.

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**Who acts:** Lord, maidens · **What happens:** go, see, ladle · **To what, where:** maidens, another, water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, maidens), 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:pg62509:19:146
# text = And he went on a few steps farther; and he saw maidens ladling water out of one well into another.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	ladling	ladle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lord |  |  |  |  | on a few steps; far *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on step=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Lord | maidens |  | another |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ladle** | gerund | maidens *not said here* | water |  |  |  | out one | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out one=Trajectory |

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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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