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title: The merchant’s daughter was fearfully afraid of lying on a single be… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant’s daughter was fearfully afraid of lying on a single bed with such a formless monster. Who acts: daughter. 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 24

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The merchant’s daughter was fearfully afraid of lying on a single bed with such a formless monster.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** be, lie · **To what, where:** single bed

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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 (daughter), 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:pg62509:34:24
# text = The merchant’s daughter was fearfully afraid of lying on a single bed with such a formless monster.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	formless	formless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the merchant's daughter |  |  |  |  | afraid, fearfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | the merchant's daughter *not said here* |  |  | a single bed |  | with such formless monster | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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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