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title: “Now you will never again see Márya Moryévna any more!” and with a f… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now you will never again see Márya Moryévna any more!” and with a fearful flash of lightning he flew into the country, gathered up Márya Moryévna on the road, the fair Queen, snatched her up and took her to himself. Who acts: you, Koshchéy, lightning. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afa
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 88

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“Now you will never again see Márya Moryévna any more!” and with a fearful flash of lightning he flew into the country, gathered up Márya Moryévna on the road, the fair Queen, snatched her up and took her to himself.

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**Who acts:** you, Koshchéy, lightning · **What happens:** see, fly, gather up, snatch up, take, flash · **To what, where:** Márya, country, road, MÁRYA, Koshchéy · **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 (you, Koshchéy, lightning), 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:pg62509:23:88
# text = “Now you will never again see Márya Moryévna any more!” and with a fearful flash of lightning he flew into the country, gathered up Márya Moryévna on the road, the fair Queen, snatched her up and took her to himself.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
8	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	any	any	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you | Márya |  |  | now; again; never |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer márya=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Koshchéy |  |  | the country |  | with a fearful flash of lightning | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather up** | participle | Koshchéy *not said here* | Márya |  | the road |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snatch up** | past | Koshchéy *not said here* | MÁRYA *= márya* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | Koshchéy *not said here* | MÁRYA *= márya* | Koshchéy |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to himself=Destination |
| 6 | **flash** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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