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title: At last our doctor arrived, recognised his old acquaintance, called… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last our doctor arrived, recognised his old acquaintance, called for his little devil, and the little devil never thought of running away, and he would not leave the prince’s palace. Who acts: last doctor, little devil, devil, youth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening,
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 14

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At last our doctor arrived, recognised his old acquaintance, called for his little devil, and the little devil never thought of running away, and he would not leave the prince’s palace.

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**Who acts:** last doctor, little devil, devil, youth · **What happens:** arrive, recognise, call, not think, run away, not leave · **To what, where:** old acquaintance, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (last doctor, little devil, devil, youth), 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:pg62509:26:14
# text = At last our doctor arrived, recognised his old acquaintance, called for his little devil, and the little devil never thought of running away, and he would not leave the prince’s palace.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | our last doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | our last doctor *not said here* | youth's old acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer acquaintance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | youth's old acquaintance *not said here* |  |  |  | for youth's little devil | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for devil=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | the little devil |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run away** | gerund | the little devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **leave** | would | devil | the prince's palace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 7 | **acquaint** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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