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title: The Prince and Princess made ready to be guests, and they set out on… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince and Princess made ready to be guests, and they set out on their journey with all their noble host with them, crossed the first river, which ran with splendid beer. Who acts: Prince, nightingales, first river. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 114

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The Prince and Princess made ready to be guests, and they set out on their journey with all their noble host with them, crossed the first river, which ran with splendid beer.

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**Who acts:** Prince, nightingales, first river · **What happens:** make, be, set out, cross, run, journey · **To what, where:** guests, journey, first river

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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 (Prince, nightingales, first river), 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:pg62509:4:114
# text = The Prince and Princess made ready to be guests, and they set out on their journey with all their noble host with them, crossed the first river, which ran with splendid beer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Prince and Princess |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Prince and Princess *not said here* | guests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set out** | past | nightingales *= nightingale* |  |  | nightingales's journey with nightingales's noble host with fruits |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | past | the Prince and Princess *not said here* | the first river |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 5 | **run** | past | the first river |  |  |  |  | with splendid beer | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with beer=Material |
| 6 | **journey** |  | nightingales *= nightingale* |  |  |  |  | with nightingales's noble host with fruits | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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