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title: And Alyósha Popóvich went straight to the white stone palace, to Pri… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Alyósha Popóvich went straight to the white stone palace, to Prince Vladímir, crossed himself as is befitting, bowed down in learned-wise in all four directions, and especially low to Prince Vladímir. Who acts: Alyósha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, wit
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 34

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And Alyósha Popóvich went straight to the white stone palace, to Prince Vladímir, crossed himself as is befitting, bowed down in learned-wise in all four directions, and especially low to Prince Vladímir.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha · **What happens:** go, cross, befit, bow down, learn · **To what, where:** Prince, white stone palace, ALYÓSHA

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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:pg62509:20:34
# text = And Alyósha Popóvich went straight to the white stone palace, to Prince Vladímir, crossed himself as is befitting, bowed down in learned-wise in all four directions, and especially low to Prince Vladímir.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
25	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Alyósha |  | Prince | the white stone palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location to prince=Destination |
| 2 | **cross** | past | Alyósha *not said here* | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **befit** | present · progressive | Alyósha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bow down** | participle | Alyósha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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