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title: Then Danílo the Unfortunate went to the blue sea, and he stood in fr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Danílo the Unfortunate went to the blue sea, and he stood in front of the dusky oak: and at midnight the blue sea was disturbed and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, appeared before him. Who acts: Danílo, DANÍLO, Chúdo. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, w
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

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Then Danílo the Unfortunate went to the blue sea, and he stood in front of the dusky oak: and at midnight the blue sea was disturbed and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, appeared before him.

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**Who acts:** Danílo, DANÍLO, Chúdo · **What happens:** go, stand, disturb, appear · **To what, where:** blue sea, front

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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 (Danílo, DANÍLO, Chúdo), 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:pg62509:4:44
# text = Then Danílo the Unfortunate went to the blue sea, and he stood in front of the dusky oak: and at midnight the blue sea was disturbed and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, appeared before him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
30	Chúdo	Chúdo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Yúda	Yúda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
41	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Danílo |  |  | the blue sea | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* |  |  | front of the dusky oak |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 3 | **disturb** | past · passive |  | the blue sea |  |  | midnight |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **appear** | past | Chúdo and the Old Man of the Sea |  |  |  | before sea |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |

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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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