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title: And so he clomb a lofty mountain, looked out to his own house, and s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so he clomb a lofty mountain, looked out to his own house, and saw that everything there had been eaten up, and only the walls were standing. Who acts: Tsarévich, clomb, walls. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 162

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And so he clomb a lofty mountain, looked out to his own house, and saw that everything there had been eaten up, and only the walls were standing.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich, clomb, walls · **What happens:** clomb, look out, see, eat up, stand · **To what, where:** lofty mountain, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, clomb, walls), 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:pg62509:22:162
# text = And so he clomb a lofty mountain, looked out to his own house, and saw that everything there had been eaten up, and only the walls were standing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clomb** |  | Tsarévich | a lofty mountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look out** | past | clomb |  |  |  |  | to Tsarévich's own house | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | clomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat up** | past · perfect · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | the walls |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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