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description: And whilst he was thinking this, lo and behold! in front of him stood a covered table, and on the table was food and drink, enough for all. Who acts: Cossack. 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 69

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And whilst he was thinking this, lo and behold! in front of him stood a covered table, and on the table was food and drink, enough for all.

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**Who acts:** Cossack · **What happens:** think, stand, cover, be · **To what, where:** this, front, covered table, table food

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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 (Cossack), 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:pg62509:34:69
# text = And whilst he was thinking this, lo and behold! in front of him stood a covered table, and on the table was food and drink, enough for all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Cossack | this |  | front of man |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a covered table |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | table food and drink |  |  |  | drink *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | for all | 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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