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title: There was no loitering at the king’s court; very soon all was got re… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no loitering at the king’s court; very soon all was got ready, and Iván was affianced to Princess Olyóna. Who acts: loitering, Princess. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 35

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There was no loitering at the king’s court; very soon all was got ready, and Iván was affianced to Princess Olyóna.

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**Who acts:** loitering, Princess · **What happens:** be, get, affiance · **To what, where:** court, all, Iván

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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 (loitering, Princess), 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:pg62509:22:35
# text = There was no loitering at the king’s court; very soon all was got ready, and Iván was affianced to Princess Olyóna.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	loitering	loitering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	affianced	affiance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl:agent	_	_
24	Olyóna	Olyóna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no loitering |  |  | the king's court; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 2 | **get** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  | ready, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **affiance** | past · passive | Princess | 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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