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title: Then from somewhere or other all sorts of dishes and drinks appeared… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then from somewhere or other all sorts of dishes and drinks appeared on the table, enough to please a Tsar, and a Tsar would not have been ashamed of it. Who acts: dishes. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 16

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Then from somewhere or other all sorts of dishes and drinks appeared on the table, enough to please a Tsar, and a Tsar would not have been ashamed of it.

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**Who acts:** dishes · **What happens:** appear, please, not asham, sort · **To what, where:** table, Tsar, dishes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes), 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:pg62509:33:16
# text = Then from somewhere or other all sorts of dishes and drinks appeared on the table, enough to please a Tsar, and a Tsar would not have been ashamed of it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | dishes and drinks |  |  | the table | then | somewhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location |
| 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | dishes and drinks *not said here* | a Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tsar=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **asham** | would · perfect · passive |  | a Tsar |  |  |  | of table | tree rules |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | dishes and drinks |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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