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title: Anna the Fair took her conjuring book and searched it through for th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Anna the Fair took her conjuring book and searched it through for the riddle—looked the whole book through in vain. Who acts: 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 33

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Anna the Fair took her conjuring book and searched it through for the riddle—looked the whole book through in vain.

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**Who acts:** Anna · **What happens:** take, conjure, search through, look · **To what, where:** Tsarévna, book, whole book, vain

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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 (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:pg62509:38:34
# text = Anna the Fair took her conjuring book and searched it through for the riddle—looked the whole book through in vain.
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	conjuring	conjure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Anna |  | Tsarévna |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 2 | **conjure** | gerund | Anna *not said here* | book |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result |
| 3 | **search through** | past | Anna *not said here* | book |  |  |  | for the riddle | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location for riddle=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | Anna *not said here* | the whole book |  | vain |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Attribute |

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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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