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title: So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and they saw that the poor starveling had a big new house, much finer than many merchants’ houses. Who acts: rich man, Things, poor starveling. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 56

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So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and they saw that the poor starveling had a big new house, much finer than many merchants’ houses.

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**Who acts:** rich man, Things, poor starveling · **What happens:** go, see, have · **To what, where:** big new house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rich man, Things, poor starveling), 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:pg62509:36:56
# text = So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and they saw that the poor starveling had a big new house, much finer than many merchants’ houses.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	starveling	starveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the rich man |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | the poor starveling | a big new house |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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