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title: And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets filled with wine, but Danílo good hard blows; and on great feast days every one was sated, but Danílo had nothing. Who acts: Vladímir, Danílo. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its depende
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

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And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets filled with wine, but Danílo good hard blows; and on great feast days every one was sated, but Danílo had nothing.

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**Who acts:** Vladímir, Danílo · **What happens:** use, give, fill, blow, sate, have · **To what, where:** servants goblets, one, 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 (Vladímir, Danílo), 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:pg62509:4:24
# text = And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets filled with wine, but Danílo good hard blows; and on great feast days every one was sated, but Danílo had nothing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	goblets	goblet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	sated	sate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Vladímir  Prince |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Vladímir  Prince *not said here* | all servants goblets |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | all servants goblets *not said here* |  |  |  | with wine | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wine=Instrument |
| 4 | **blow** |  | Danílo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sate** | past · passive |  | every one |  |  | day |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Danílo | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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