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title: She was going to sit in this temple on a lofty throne, and was going… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was going to sit in this temple on a lofty throne, and was going to wait for the bridegroom—the valiant man who should on a flying horse, at a single spring, kiss her on the lips. Who acts: decree. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 107

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She was going to sit in this temple on a lofty throne, and was going to wait for the bridegroom—the valiant man who should on a flying horse, at a single spring, kiss her on the lips.

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**Who acts:** decree · **What happens:** go, sit, wait, fly, kiss · **To what, where:** temple, decree, lips

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (decree), 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:pg62509:26:107
# text = She was going to sit in this temple on a lofty throne, and was going to wait for the bridegroom—the valiant man who should on a flying horse, at a single spring, kiss her on the lips.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | decree |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | decree *not said here* |  |  | this temple |  | on a lofty throne | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in temple=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | decree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive | decree *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | for the bridegroom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **kiss** | infinitive | decree *not said here* | decree |  | the lips |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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