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title: Then the fair maiden, the daughter of the merchant, went in the diff… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the fair maiden, the daughter of the merchant, went in the different rooms, and beheld everywhere gold and velvet; but no one was there to be seen, not a single human soul. Who acts: fair maiden, one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 11

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Then the fair maiden, the daughter of the merchant, went in the different rooms, and beheld everywhere gold and velvet; but no one was there to be seen, not a single human soul.

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**Who acts:** fair maiden, one · **What happens:** go, behold, be, see · **To what, where:** different rooms, gold, single human soul

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, one), 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:pg62509:34:11
# text = Then the fair maiden, the daughter of the merchant, went in the different rooms, and beheld everywhere gold and velvet; but no one was there to be seen, not a single human soul.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the fair maiden and the daughter of the merchant |  |  | the different rooms | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **behold** | participle | the fair maiden and the daughter of the merchant *not said here* | gold and velvet |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | no one *not said here* | a single human soul |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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