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title: So then he went into the courtyard and opened the red coffer, and ou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So then he went into the courtyard and opened the red coffer, and out of it oxen and kine, sheep and rams, came out. Who acts: Tsarítsa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 106

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So then he went into the courtyard and opened the red coffer, and out of it oxen and kine, sheep and rams, came out.

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**Who acts:** Tsarítsa · **What happens:** go, open, come out · **To what, where:** courtyard, red coffer, oxen

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa), 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:pg62509:29:106
# text = So then he went into the courtyard and opened the red coffer, and out of it oxen and kine, sheep and rams, came out.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coffer	coffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
18	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Tsarítsa |  |  | the courtyard | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **open** | past | Tsarítsa *not said here* | the red coffer |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coffer=Theme |
| 3 | **come out** | past | Tsarítsa *not said here* |  |  | oxen of courtyard and kine and sheep and rams |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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