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title: Then Iváshko laid hold of the maiden from the silver realm, and she… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Iváshko laid hold of the maiden from the silver realm, and she was drawn up, and the ladder let down again. Who acts: Iváshko, ladder. 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 86

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Then Iváshko laid hold of the maiden from the silver realm, and she was drawn up, and the ladder let down again.

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**Who acts:** Iváshko, ladder · **What happens:** lay, draw up, let down, hold · **To what, where:** hold, tale, 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 (Iváshko, ladder), 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:pg62509:27:86
# text = Then Iváshko laid hold of the maiden from the silver realm, and she was drawn up, and the ladder let down again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Iváshko	Iváshko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | Iváshko | hold of the maiden from the silver realm |  |  | then |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 2 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | tale |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **let down** | infinitive | the ladder |  |  |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the maiden from the silver realm |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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