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title: Soon they reached the palace: the thunder rattled and the ceiling fe… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon they reached the palace: the thunder rattled and the ceiling fell down, and the ceiling divided into two. Who acts: summits, thunder, ceiling. 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 44

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Soon they reached the palace: the thunder rattled and the ceiling fell down, and the ceiling divided into two.

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**Who acts:** summits, thunder, ceiling · **What happens:** reach, rattle, fall down, divide · **To what, where:** palace, ceiling, two

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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 (summits, thunder, ceiling), 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:pg62509:23:44
# text = Soon they reached the palace: the thunder rattled and the ceiling fell down, and the ceiling divided into two.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | summits *= summit* | the palace |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **rattle** | participle | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall down** | past | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **divide** | participle · passive |  | the ceiling |  | two |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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