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title: So they flew straight to the courtyard, and the sister came to meet… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they flew straight to the courtyard, and the sister came to meet them and received her brother, seated him on an oaken table; but she would not look on the Tsar—she left him outside in the courtyard and she let the fleet dogs out to feed on him. Who acts: sides, sister, fleet dogs. A sentence of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 71

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So they flew straight to the courtyard, and the sister came to meet them and received her brother, seated him on an oaken table; but she would not look on the Tsar—she left him outside in the courtyard and she let the fleet dogs out to feed on him.

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**Who acts:** sides, sister, fleet dogs · **What happens:** fly, come, meet, receive, seat, not look · **To what, where:** courtyard, sides, brother, eagle, oaken table, fleet dogs

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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 (sides, sister, fleet dogs), 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:pg62509:29:71
# text = So they flew straight to the courtyard, and the sister came to meet them and received her brother, seated him on an oaken table; but she would not look on the Tsar—she left him outside in the courtyard and she let the fleet dogs out to feed on him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | sides *= side* | the courtyard |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location courtyard=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the sister *not said here* | sides *= side* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **receive** | past | sides *= side* *not said here* | sister's brother |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 5 | **seat** | past | sides *= side* *not said here* | eagle |  | a oaken table |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value |
| 6 | **not** **look** | would | sister |  |  |  |  | on the Tsar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tsar=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | past | sister | eagle |  | the courtyard |  | outside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in courtyard=Location |
| 8 | **let** | past | sister | the fleet dogs |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the fleet dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on eagle | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on he=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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