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title: Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two e… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two elder daughters away to famous Tsarévichi. Who acts: time, King. 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 12

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Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two elder daughters away to famous Tsarévichi.

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**Who acts:** time, King · **What happens:** go, give · **To what, where:** little, two elder daughters, famous Tsarévichi

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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 (time, King), 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:pg62509:29:12
# text = Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two elder daughters away to famous Tsarévichi.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Tsarévichi	Tsarévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | some time | little |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by much=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | the King | Donotknow's two elder daughters | famous Tsarévichi |  |  | away *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to tsarévichi=Recipient |

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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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