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title: The maidens came out of the sea and went on shore: eleven of them st… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The maidens came out of the sea and went on shore: eleven of them struck the earth, turned into birds and flew home: one was left alone, the eldest—Vasilísa the Wise. Who acts: maidens, eleven. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 11

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The maidens came out of the sea and went on shore: eleven of them struck the earth, turned into birds and flew home: one was left alone, the eldest—Vasilísa the Wise.

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**Who acts:** maidens, eleven · **What happens:** come out, go, strike, turn, fly, leave · **To what, where:** sea, shore, earth, one

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, eleven), 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:pg62509:30:11
# text = The maidens came out of the sea and went on shore: eleven of them struck the earth, turned into birds and flew home: one was left alone, the eldest—Vasilísa the Wise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
30	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Wise	Wise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the maidens | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result |
| 2 | **go** | past | the maidens *not said here* |  |  | shore |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 3 | **strike** | past | eleven of maidens | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | participle |  | the earth *not said here* |  |  |  | into birds *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result |
| 5 | **fly** | past | eleven of maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | past · passive |  | one |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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