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title: So he went and lifted his kaftan and found the duck tied to the lapp… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went and lifted his kaftan and found the duck tied to the lappet; one feather was of gold, one was of silver. Who acts: earth, one feather. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 98

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So he went and lifted his kaftan and found the duck tied to the lappet; one feather was of gold, one was of silver.

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**Who acts:** earth, one feather · **What happens:** go, lift, find, tie, be · **To what, where:** kaftan, duck

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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 (earth, one feather), 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:pg62509:33:98
# text = So he went and lifted his kaftan and found the duck tied to the lappet; one feather was of gold, one was of silver.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kaftan	kaftan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lappet	lappet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past | earth *not said here* | earth's kaftan |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaftan=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | earth *not said here* | the duck |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |
| 4 | **tie** | participle |  | the duck *not said here* |  |  |  | to the lappet | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to lappet=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | one feather |  |  |  |  | of gold and one silver | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | one feather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of one silver | tree rules |

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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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