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description: Then the husband said, “Now, my wife, here is a peasant who has promised to tell stories all night long, on the condition that you are not to make any remarks or interruptions.” Who acts: husband, wife, peasant, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its d
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 82

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Then the husband said, “Now, my wife, here is a peasant who has promised to tell stories all night long, on the condition that you are not to make any remarks or interruptions.”

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**Who acts:** husband, wife, peasant, you · **What happens:** say, be, promise, tell, not be · **To what, where:** peasant, stories, condition · **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 (husband, wife, peasant, 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:pg62509:39:82
# text = Then the husband said, “Now, my wife, here is a peasant who has promised to tell stories all night long, on the condition that you are not to make any remarks or interruptions.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	interruptions	interruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the husband |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my wife | a peasant |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · perfect | a peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a peasant *not said here* | stories |  | the condition |  | long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | any remarks or interruptions *obj*; make *property* | 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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