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title: Time went by and went by, and the fair damsel became hungry and thou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Time went by and went by, and the fair damsel became hungry and thought, “Oh, if I could only have something to eat!” Who acts: fair damsel. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 12

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Time went by and went by, and the fair damsel became hungry and thought, “Oh, if I could only have something to eat!”

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**Who acts:** fair damsel · **What happens:** go by, become, think, have, eat · **To what, where:** something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 damsel), 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:pg62509:34:12
# text = Time went by and went by, and the fair damsel became hungry and thought, “Oh, if I could only have something to eat!”
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go by** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the fair damsel |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the fair damsel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | the fair damsel *= damsel* | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the fair damsel *= damsel* *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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