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title: As soon as he had spoken these words a little devil rose up at once… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he had spoken these words a little devil rose up at once in front of him and said, “Hail, soldier, what do you wish? Who acts: he, spoken words, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 1

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As soon as he had spoken these words a little devil rose up at once in front of him and said, “Hail, soldier, what do you wish?

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**Who acts:** he, spoken words, you · **What happens:** speak, rise up, say, wish · **To what, where:** front, Hail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, spoken words, 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:pg62509:37:1
# text = As soon as he had spoken these words a little devil rose up at once in front of him and said, “Hail, soldier, what do you wish?
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | this spoken words |  |  | front of devil |  | a little devil *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | this spoken words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Hail *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Hail |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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