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title: Twelve grooms opened the twelve locks, undid twelve doors, and led t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve grooms opened the twelve locks, undid twelve doors, and led the magical horse out by twelve chains. Who acts: Twelve grooms. 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 55

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Twelve grooms opened the twelve locks, undid twelve doors, and led the magical horse out by twelve chains.

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**Who acts:** Twelve grooms · **What happens:** open, lead out · **To what, where:** twelve locks, magical horse

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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 (Twelve grooms), 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:pg62509:38:56
# text = Twelve grooms opened the twelve locks, undid twelve doors, and led the magical horse out by twelve chains.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	undid	undid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Twelve grooms | the twelve locks and undid twelve doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme |
| 2 | **lead out** | past | Twelve grooms *not said here* | the magical horse |  |  |  | by twelve chains | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme by chain=Destination |

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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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