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title: And Vertodúb was then very joyous and set to work gaily. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Vertodúb was then very joyous and set to work gaily. Who acts: Vertodúb. 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 13

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And Vertodúb was then very joyous and set to work gaily.

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**Who acts:** Vertodúb · **What happens:** be, set, work

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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 (Vertodúb), 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:pg62509:23:13
# text = And Vertodúb was then very joyous and set to work gaily.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Vertodúb	Vertodúb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Vertodúb |  |  |  | then | joyous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | Vertodúb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | Vertodúb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn employment-95.3 «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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