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title: Then the daughter looked at them, but was simply staggered and under… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the daughter looked at them, but was simply staggered and understood nothing, and only afterwards, little by little, came to herself. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 25

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Then the daughter looked at them, but was simply staggered and understood nothing, and only afterwards, little by little, came to herself.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** look, stagger, understand, come · **To what, where:** nothing, daughter

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg62509:27:25
# text = Then the daughter looked at them, but was simply staggered and understood nothing, and only afterwards, little by little, came to herself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the daughter |  |  |  | then | at villages *= village* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 2 | **stagger** | past · passive | the daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **understand** | participle | the daughter *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past | the daughter *not said here* |  | daughter |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial\_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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