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title: So the good youth glimpsed down, and he saw a fearful, huge bird fly… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the good youth glimpsed down, and he saw a fearful, huge bird flying into the garden and overthrowing the trees. Who acts: good youth, youth, fearful huge bird. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 133

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So the good youth glimpsed down, and he saw a fearful, huge bird flying into the garden and overthrowing the trees.

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**Who acts:** good youth, youth, fearful huge bird · **What happens:** glimpse down, see, fly, overthrow · **To what, where:** fearful huge bird, garden, trees

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good youth, youth, fearful huge bird), 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:pg62509:24:133
# text = So the good youth glimpsed down, and he saw a fearful, huge bird flying into the garden and overthrowing the trees.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	glimpsed	glimpse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	overthrowing	overthrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glimpse down** | participle | the good youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | past | youth | a fearful huge bird |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | a fearful huge bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the garden *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result |
| 4 | **overthrow** | gerund | a fearful huge bird *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  |  | 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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