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title: Soon he began to overlook the stock, and in the corner he found an i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he began to overlook the stock, and in the corner he found an image of the holy St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 50

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Soon he began to overlook the stock, and in the corner he found an image of the holy St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** begin, overlook, find, image · **To what, where:** stock, image, corner, holy Nicholas

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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:pg62509:21:50
# text = Soon he began to overlook the stock, and in the corner he found an image of the holy St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	overlook	overlook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Worker	Worker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **overlook** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | the stock |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Iván | a image of the holy Nicholas  St. |  | the corner |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Topic |
| 4 | **image** |  |  | the holy Nicholas  St. |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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