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title: Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find the coffin lid anywhere, and began to hunt for it. Who acts: corpse. 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 71

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Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find the coffin lid anywhere, and began to hunt for it.

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**Who acts:** corpse · **What happens:** come back, look, not find, begin, hunt · **To what, where:** coffin lid

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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 (corpse), 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:pg62509:2:71
# text = Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find the coffin lid anywhere, and began to hunt for it.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the corpse |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | the corpse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about corpse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | the corpse *not said here* | the coffin lid |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Topic |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the corpse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the corpse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for lid | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

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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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