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title: Then the invited guests arrived, and they entered into the lofty pal… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the invited guests arrived, and they entered into the lofty palace: there were tables standing, and the table-cloths were of silk, and the chairs painted with many colours. Who acts: invited guests, companions, tables, table cloths. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 122

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Then the invited guests arrived, and they entered into the lofty palace: there were tables standing, and the table-cloths were of silk, and the chairs painted with many colours.

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**Who acts:** invited guests, companions, tables, table cloths · **What happens:** invite, arrive, enter, be, stand, paint · **To what, where:** lofty palace, chairs

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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 (invited guests, companions, tables, table cloths), 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:pg62509:4:122
# text = Then the invited guests arrived, and they entered into the lofty palace: there were tables standing, and the table-cloths were of silk, and the chairs painted with many colours.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
18	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the invited guests |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  | the lofty palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **be** | past | tables |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | tables *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the table cloths |  |  |  |  | of silk and the chairs; the chairs *conj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **paint** | participle |  | the chairs *not said here* |  |  |  | with many colours | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colour=Theme |

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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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