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title: One year went by, and the Queen bore him another son, and the sister… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One year went by, and the Queen bore him another son, and the sisters again took it away, and told him she had born a kitten. Who acts: Queen, sisters. 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 62

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One year went by, and the Queen bore him another son, and the sisters again took it away, and told him she had born a kitten.

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**Who acts:** Queen, sisters · **What happens:** go by, bear, take away, tell · **To what, where:** son, King, chance, Queen · **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 (Queen, sisters), 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:pg62509:32:62
# text = One year went by, and the Queen bore him another son, and the sisters again took it away, and told him she had born a kitten.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past | the Queen | another son | King |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient |
| 3 | **take away** | past | the sisters | chance |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | Queen |  |  |  | a kitten *obj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary kitten=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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