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title: The King then saw how matters stood; was overjoyed; took them to liv… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King then saw how matters stood; was overjoyed; took them to live with him for ever. Who acts: King, matters. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 137

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The King then saw how matters stood; was overjoyed; took them to live with him for ever.

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**Who acts:** King, matters · **What happens:** see, stand, overjoy, take, live · **To what, where:** matters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, matters), 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:pg62509:32:137
# text = The King then saw how matters stood; was overjoyed; took them to live with him for ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the King |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | matters |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **overjoy** | past · passive | matters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | the King *not said here* | matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with King | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |

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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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