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title: Now, in this wood, in which her mother and father lived, there was a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, in this wood, in which her mother and father lived, there was a bold hunter. Who acts: mother, bold hunter. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 146

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Now, in this wood, in which her mother and father lived, there was a bold hunter.

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**Who acts:** mother, bold hunter · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** wood

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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 (mother, bold hunter), 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:pg62509:26:146
# text = Now, in this wood, in which her mother and father lived, there was a bold hunter.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Vanyúshka's mother and father |  |  | this wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | a bold hunter |  |  | this wood; there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |

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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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