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title: There there is a maiden who is much fairer than I.” Thereupon she ga… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There there is a maiden who is much fairer than I.” Thereupon she gave him a silver ring. Who acts: maiden, bride. 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 64

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There there is a maiden who is much fairer than I.” Thereupon she gave him a silver ring.

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**Who acts:** maiden, bride · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** silver ring, maiden

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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 (maiden, bride), 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:pg62509:27:64
# text = There there is a maiden who is much fairer than I.” Thereupon she gave him a silver ring.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	I.	i.	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a maiden |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a maiden |  |  |  |  | than I.; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | past | bride | a silver ring | maiden |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme |

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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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