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title: Vertogór was then very happy and set about work gaily. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Vertogór was then very happy and set about work gaily. Who acts: Vertogór. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 10

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Vertogór was then very happy and set about work gaily.

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**Who acts:** Vertogór · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vertogór), 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:pg62509:23:10
# text = Vertogór was then very happy and set about work gaily.
1	Vertogór	Vertogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Vertogór |  |  |  | then | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Vertogór *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about work | 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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