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title: After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home wi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home without getting anything, and the peasant went on living merrily—living on and gaining nothing but good. Who acts: master, peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 21

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After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home without getting anything, and the peasant went on living merrily—living on and gaining nothing but good.

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**Who acts:** master, peasant · **What happens:** come, go back, get, go, live, live on · **To what, where:** end, anything, nothing

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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 (master, peasant), 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:pg62509:4:21
# text = After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home without getting anything, and the peasant went on living merrily—living on and gaining nothing but good.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	obj	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | to a end; after this case |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go back** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | the master *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | the peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live on** | gerund | the peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **gain** | gerund | the peasant *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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