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title: Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many peopl… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many people, and they stood or sat, only they had all been turned to stone. Who acts: soldier, many people, people. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 6

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Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many people, and they stood or sat, only they had all been turned to stone.

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**Who acts:** soldier, many people, people · **What happens:** go, be, stand, sit, turn · **To what, where:** sentry box, people, stone

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, many people, people), 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:pg62509:25:6
# text = Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many people, and they stood or sat, only they had all been turned to stone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the soldier |  |  | the sentry box | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into box=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | many people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | past · perfect · passive |  | people |  | stone |  | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |

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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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