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title: The rope ladder stood all ready, and there there stood the elder bro… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rope ladder stood all ready, and there there stood the elder brothers, who were looking for him. Who acts: rope ladder, elder brothers. 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 84

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The rope ladder stood all ready, and there there stood the elder brothers, who were looking for him.

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**Who acts:** rope ladder, elder brothers · **What happens:** stand, look · **To what, where:** elder brothers

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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 (rope ladder, elder brothers), 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:pg62509:27:84
# text = The rope ladder stood all ready, and there there stood the elder brothers, who were looking for him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the rope ladder |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the rope ladder *not said here* | the elder brothers |  | there; there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | past · progressive | the elder brothers |  |  |  |  | for maiden | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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