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title: It was covered with cloth of purple, tacked in with tacks of tin; an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was covered with cloth of purple, tacked in with tacks of tin; and on one side flowers grew, nightingales sang, and on the other side apple trees and fruits bloomed and ripened. Who acts: one side flowers, nightingales. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 113

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It was covered with cloth of purple, tacked in with tacks of tin; and on one side flowers grew, nightingales sang, and on the other side apple trees and fruits bloomed and ripened.

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**Who acts:** one side flowers, nightingales · **What happens:** cover, tack in, grow, sing, bloom, ripen · **To what, where:** head, other apple trees

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one side flowers, nightingales), 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:pg62509:4:113
# text = It was covered with cloth of purple, tacked in with tacks of tin; and on one side flowers grew, nightingales sang, and on the other side apple trees and fruits bloomed and ripened.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tacked	tack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tacks	tack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ripened	ripen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | head |  |  |  | with cloth of purple | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **tack in** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with tacks of tin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | one side flowers |  |  | the other apple trees and fruits |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | nightingales |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bloom** | participle |  | the other apple trees and fruits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ripen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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