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title: The wise woman climbed up into the window, opened the door and admit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise woman climbed up into the window, opened the door and admitted her guests, opened the oven door, took out Alyónka, who was well cooked, and they all sat down to table and ate and ate and drank, and at last went out to take a turn on the grass: Who acts: wise woman, guests. A sentence of «Ru
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 144

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The wise woman climbed up into the window, opened the door and admitted her guests, opened the oven door, took out Alyónka, who was well cooked, and they all sat down to table and ate and ate and drank, and at last went out to take a turn on the grass:

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**Who acts:** wise woman, guests · **What happens:** climb up, open, admit, take out, cook, sit down · **To what, where:** window, door, guests, oven door, Alyónka, last

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise woman, guests), 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:pg62509:36:144
# text = The wise woman climbed up into the window, opened the door and admitted her guests, opened the oven door, took out Alyónka, who was well cooked, and they all sat down to table and ate and ate and drank, and at last went out to take a turn on the grass:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	Alyónka	Alyónka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	_
49	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | the wise woman |  |  | the window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into window=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | past |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | past |  | WOMAN's guests |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past |  | the oven door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 5 | **take out** | past |  | Alyónka |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alyónka=Theme |
| 6 | **cook** | past · passive |  | Alyónka |  |  |  | well *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **sit down** | past | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **eat** | past | guests *= guest* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **eat** | past | guests *= guest* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **drink** | past | guests *= guest* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **go out** | past | the wise woman *not said here* |  |  | last |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 12 | **take** | to-infinitive | the wise woman *not said here* | a turn |  | the grass |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turn=Theme on grass=Destination |

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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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