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title: Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest d… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest daughter as though she were the wife of Iván Tsarévich. Who acts: stepmother, Márya. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 34

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Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest daughter as though she were the wife of Iván Tsarévich.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, Márya · **What happens:** turn, deck, be · **To what, where:** Márya, eldest daughter, wife

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Márya), 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:pg62509:2:34
# text = Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest daughter as though she were the wife of Iván Tsarévich.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	decked	deck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the stepmother | Márya |  |  | then | into a goose *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into goose=Result |
| 2 | **deck** | past | the stepmother *not said here* |  | Márya's eldest daughter |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme daughter=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Márya | the wife |  |  |  | of Iván | 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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