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title: Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came up and woke Danílo the Unf… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came up and woke Danílo the Unfortunate: “Arise, my dear friend, the _shúba_ is ready, and the church-bells are ringing in the city of Kíev: it is time for you to arise and to prepare for matins.” Who acts: Swan bird, shúba _, church bells, bird. A sentence of «R
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 68

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Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came up and woke Danílo the Unfortunate: “Arise, my dear friend, the \_shúba\_ is ready, and the church-bells are ringing in the city of Kíev: it is time for you to arise and to prepare for matins.”

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**Who acts:** Swan bird, shúba \_, church bells, bird, you · **What happens:** come up, wake, arise, be, ring, prepare · **To what, where:** Danílo, dear friend, city, time

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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 (Swan bird, shúba \_, church bells, bird), 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:pg62509:4:68
# text = Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came up and woke Danílo the Unfortunate: “Arise, my dear friend, the _shúba_ is ready, and the church-bells are ringing in the city of Kíev: it is time for you to arise and to prepare for matins.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	shúba	shúba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	matins	matin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the Swan bird and the fair maiden |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | past | the Swan bird and the fair maiden *not said here* | Danílo |  |  |  | unfortunate *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent danílo=Patient |
| 3 | **arise** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Swan bird and the fair maiden *not said here* | my dear friend |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friend=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | shúba \_ |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ring** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the church bells |  |  | the city of Kíev |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | bird | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **arise** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **prepare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for matins | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for matin=Beneficiary |

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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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