---
title: Next day, as soon as ever the soldier had appeared at the barriers,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day, as soon as ever the soldier had appeared at the barriers, a sentry ran out and gave him a generous honour. Who acts: soldier, sentry. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/97/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/) / 97

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 97

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Next day, as soon as ever the soldier had appeared at the barriers, a sentry ran out and gave him a generous honour.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** soldier, sentry · **What happens:** appear, run out, give · **To what, where:** Next day, barriers, generous honour, sentry

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (soldier, sentry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:19:97
# text = Next day, as soon as ever the soldier had appeared at the barriers, a sentry ran out and gave him a generous honour.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past · perfect | the soldier | Next day *not said here* |  | the barriers |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme |
| 2 | **run out** | past | a sentry |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | a sentry *not said here* | a generous honour | sentry |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/96/)
- next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/98/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/)