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title: “Hail, fair maiden! put my bed outside this door!” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hail, fair maiden! put my bed outside this door!” Who acts: you. 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 17

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“Hail, fair maiden! put my bed outside this door!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** Hail, door

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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 (you), 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:pg62509:34:17
# text = “Hail, fair maiden! put my bed outside this door!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Hail and fair maiden |  | this door |  | my bed *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme outside door=Destination |

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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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