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title: Once a peasant lived with his wife, and they had three daughters: tw… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once a peasant lived with his wife, and they had three daughters: two were finely dressed and clever, but the third was a simple girl; the sisters and the father and mother as well called her the Little Fool. Who acts: peasant, WOLF, third. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Open
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 106

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Once a peasant lived with his wife, and they had three daughters: two were finely dressed and clever, but the third was a simple girl; the sisters and the father and mother as well called her the Little Fool.

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**Who acts:** peasant, WOLF, third · **What happens:** live, have, dress, be, call · **To what, where:** three daughters, two, simple girl, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, WOLF, third), 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:pg62509:5:108
# text = Once a peasant lived with his wife, and they had three daughters: two were finely dressed and clever, but the third was a simple girl; the sisters and the father and mother as well called her the Little Fool.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	39	cc	_	_
38	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	fixed	_	_
39	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a peasant |  |  |  |  | with peasant's wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | WOLF | three daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **dress** | past · passive |  | two |  |  |  | the sisters and the father and mother *obl*; finely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the third | a simple girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  |  | girl |  |  | the Little Fool *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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