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title: Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, staye… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, stayed a while, and went on to another house where there also was singing. Who acts: St.. 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 94

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Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, stayed a while, and went on to another house where there also was singing.

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**Who acts:** St. · **What happens:** go back, hear, stay, go on, sing · **To what, where:** splendid folk song, house

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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 (St.), 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:pg62509:37:96
# text = Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, stayed a while, and went on to another house where there also was singing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | St. |  |  |  | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | St. *not said here* | a splendid folk song |  | the house |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stay** | past | St. *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go on** | past | St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to another house | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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