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title: Sunset appeared after sunset and the stars gathered in their nocturn… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunset appeared after sunset and the stars gathered in their nocturnal dances: it was all so beautiful and so lovely as no tale can tell and no pen can write. Who acts: Sunset, stars, APPLE, tale. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 124

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Sunset appeared after sunset and the stars gathered in their nocturnal dances: it was all so beautiful and so lovely as no tale can tell and no pen can write.

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**Who acts:** Sunset, stars, APPLE, tale, pen · **What happens:** appear, gather, be, tell, write, dance · **To what, where:** nocturnal dances · **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 (Sunset, stars, APPLE, tale), 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:pg62509:5:126
# text = Sunset appeared after sunset and the stars gathered in their nocturnal dances: it was all so beautiful and so lovely as no tale can tell and no pen can write.
1	Sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Sunset |  |  |  | sunset |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the stars |  |  | stars's nocturnal dances |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | APPLE |  |  |  |  | all, beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | APPLE *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | no tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **write** | can | no pen |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **dance** |  | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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