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title: The old hag whom Danílo meets on the way is elsewhere called the Wis… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old hag whom Danílo meets on the way is elsewhere called the Wise Woman of Kíev, an old witch with the ugly qualities generally assigned. Who acts: Danílo. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 147

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The old hag whom Danílo meets on the way is elsewhere called the Wise Woman of Kíev, an old witch with the ugly qualities generally assigned.

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**Who acts:** Danílo · **What happens:** meet, call, assign · **To what, where:** old hag, way, ugly qualities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danílo), 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:pg62509:39:147
# text = The old hag whom Danílo meets on the way is elsewhere called the Wise Woman of Kíev, an old witch with the ugly qualities generally assigned.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Danílo | the old hag |  | the way |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | the old hag |  |  |  | the Wise Woman of Kíev and a old witch with the ugly qualities *xcomp*; elsewhere *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **assign** | participle |  | the ugly qualities *not said here* |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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