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title: But under her portrait there was a legend: “_He who can set her a ri… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But under her portrait there was a legend: “_He who can set her a riddle she cannot solve is to marry her. Who acts: Iván, Anna. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 13

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But under her portrait there was a legend: “\_He who can set her a riddle she cannot solve is to marry her.

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**Who acts:** Iván, Anna · **What happens:** be, set, not solve, portray · **To what, where:** legend, Anna, riddle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Anna), 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:pg62509:38:13
# text = But under her portrait there was a legend: “_He who can set her a riddle she cannot solve is to marry her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	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 | **is a** | past |  | a legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** *in a quote* | can | Iván | Anna |  |  |  | a legend *nsubj*; a riddle *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme riddle=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **solve** *in a quote* | can | Anna | a riddle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Anna *obj*; marry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **portray** |  | Anna |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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