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title: When they came to the palace there was a thunderclap, and the roof f… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the palace there was a thunderclap, and the roof fell in and the ceiling was cleft in two, and an Eagle flew in, struck the ground and turned himself into a doughty youth, and said, “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! formerly I came to you as a guest, now I come to you as a suitor.” Who acts: 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 53

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When they came to the palace there was a thunderclap, and the roof fell in and the ceiling was cleft in two, and an Eagle flew in, struck the ground and turned himself into a doughty youth, and said, “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! formerly I came to you as a guest, now I come to you as a suitor.”

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**Who acts:** hands, roof, ceiling, Eagle, Hail · **What happens:** come, fall in, be, fly in, strike, turn · **To what, where:** palace, two, ground, Eagle, doughty youth, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hands, roof, ceiling, Eagle), 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:pg62509:23:53
# text = When they came to the palace there was a thunderclap, and the roof fell in and the ceiling was cleft in two, and an Eagle flew in, struck the ground and turned himself into a doughty youth, and said, “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! formerly I came to you as a guest, now I come to you as a suitor.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thunderclap	thunderclap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	cleft	cleft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
51	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	62	advmod	_	_
61	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	_
65	as	as	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fall in** | past | the roof |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the ceiling |  |  | two |  | cleft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly in** | past | a Eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **strike** | past | a Eagle *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 6 | **turn** | past | a Eagle *not said here* | Eagle |  | a doughty youth |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into youth=Trajectory |
| 7 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the roof *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Hail |  | you |  |  | as a guest; I *nsubj*; formerly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the roof *= roof* |  | you |  | now | as a suitor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |

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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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