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title: He went into the stable, and the horse was standing in the stall and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went into the stable, and the horse was standing in the stall and was eagerly devouring oats. Who acts: Cossack, horse. 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 71

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He went into the stable, and the horse was standing in the stall and was eagerly devouring oats.

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**Who acts:** Cossack, horse · **What happens:** go, stand, be, devour · **To what, where:** stable, stall, oats

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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, horse), 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:pg62509:34:71
# text = He went into the stable, and the horse was standing in the stall and was eagerly devouring oats.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	eagerly	eagerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
19	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Cossack |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the horse |  |  | the stall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Cossack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **devour** | gerund | Cossack *not said here* | oats |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient |

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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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