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title: When the servants take you into the broad courtyard, and he comes up… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the servants take you into the broad courtyard, and he comes up to you and lays his hand on you, stand still: do not prick your ear. Who acts: servants, servant, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 64

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When the servants take you into the broad courtyard, and he comes up to you and lays his hand on you, stand still: do not prick your ear.

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**Who acts:** servants, servant, you · **What happens:** take, come up, lay, stand, not prick · **To what, where:** you, broad courtyard, hand, ear

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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 (servants, servant, 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:pg62509:38:65
# text = When the servants take you into the broad courtyard, and he comes up to you and lays his hand on you, stand still: do not prick your ear.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	prick	prick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the servants | you |  | the broad courtyard |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into courtyard=Destination |
| 2 | **come up** | present | servant |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | present | servant *not said here* | servant's hand |  |  |  | on you | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on you=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **prick** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | your ear |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient |

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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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