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title: There is the _great corner_, where the Ikon stands, the _upper corne… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is the _great corner_, where the Ikon stands, the _upper corner_ near the door, and the _stove corner_ opposite to the doors of the stove. Who acts: _ great corner, Ikon, _. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 170

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There is the \_great corner\_, where the Ikon stands, the \_upper corner\_ near the door, and the \_stove corner\_ opposite to the doors of the stove.

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**Who acts:** \_ great corner, Ikon, \_ · **What happens:** be, stand, stove · **To what, where:** upper corner, corner

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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 (\_ great corner, Ikon, \_), 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:pg62509:39:170
# text = There is the _great corner_, where the Ikon stands, the _upper corner_ near the door, and the _stove corner_ opposite to the doors of the stove.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Ikon	Ikon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	stove	stove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
29	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the \_ great corner |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the Ikon | the upper corner near the door |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stove** | present | the \_ | corner |  |  |  | opposite *obj* | tree rules |

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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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