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title: Then there came a fine spring, and the rich man went to his fields a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there came a fine spring, and the rich man went to his fields and saw them bare, and saw that his own land was naked and waste; there was not a single blade that appeared, and on all the other strips where there had been no ploughing and no sowing, you never saw such a fine green crop! Who acts
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 117

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Then there came a fine spring, and the rich man went to his fields and saw them bare, and saw that his own land was naked and waste; there was not a single blade that appeared, and on all the other strips where there had been no ploughing and no sowing, you never saw such a fine green crop!

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**Who acts:** rich man, own land, single blade, you · **What happens:** come, go, see, be, appear, not see · **To what, where:** fields, ploughing, other strips, fine green crop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, own land, single blade, 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:pg62509:35:117
# text = Then there came a fine spring, and the rich man went to his fields and saw them bare, and saw that his own land was naked and waste; there was not a single blade that appeared, and on all the other strips where there had been no ploughing and no sowing, you never saw such a fine green crop!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	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	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	50	expl	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	cop	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	55	det	_	_
55	sowing	sowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
60	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	64	det:predet	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there | then; spring |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the rich man |  |  | man's fields |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | the rich man *not said here* | fields *= field* |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | man's own land |  |  |  |  | waste *conj*; naked *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | a single blade |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **appear** | past | a single blade |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | participle |  | no ploughing and no sowing |  | all other strips |  | no sowing *conj* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **see** | past | you | such fine green crop |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crop=Stimulus |

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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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