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title: And the master was not at a loss to ladle beer out of the well for h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the master was not at a loss to ladle beer out of the well for himself, and treated all of his guests right royally. Who acts: master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 72

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And the master was not at a loss to ladle beer out of the well for himself, and treated all of his guests right royally.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** not be, ladle, treat · **To what, where:** loss, beer, well, all

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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 (master), 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:pg62509:35:72
# text = And the master was not at a loss to ladle beer out of the well for himself, and treated all of his guests right royally.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ladle	ladle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	right	right	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	royally	royally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the master |  |  | a loss |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ladle** | to-infinitive |  | beer |  | the well for folk |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beer=Theme out well=Trajectory |
| 3 | **treat** | past |  | all of folk's guests |  |  |  | royally *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient |

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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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