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title: So there the Princess and her husband lived without grief or moil, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So there the Princess and her husband lived without grief or moil, and their son grew up a big lad and began to feel in himself a giant’s strength. Who acts: Princess, son. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 62

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So there the Princess and her husband lived without grief or moil, and their son grew up a big lad and began to feel in himself a giant’s strength.

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**Who acts:** Princess, son · **What happens:** live, grow up, begin, feel · **To what, where:** big lad, strength

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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 (Princess, son), 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:pg62509:33:62
# text = So there the Princess and her husband lived without grief or moil, and their son grew up a big lad and began to feel in himself a giant’s strength.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	moil	moil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the Princess and Princess's husband |  |  | there |  | without grief or moil | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | grief's son | a big lad |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | grief's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | grief's son *not said here* | a giant's strength |  |  |  | in son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent strength=Theme in himself=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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