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title: So Vasíli came into the palace, told the King, and ordered the windo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Vasíli came into the palace, told the King, and ordered the windows to be opened in front of which the Crows were flying. Who acts: Vasíli, windows, Crows. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 106

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So Vasíli came into the palace, told the King, and ordered the windows to be opened in front of which the Crows were flying.

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**Who acts:** Vasíli, windows, Crows · **What happens:** come, tell, order, open, fly · **To what, where:** palace, King, windows, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasíli, windows, Crows), 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:pg62509:6:106
# text = So Vasíli came into the palace, told the King, and ordered the windows to be opened in front of which the Crows were flying.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Vasíli |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Vasíli *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **order** | past |  | the windows |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent window=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the windows *not said here* |  |  | front |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in front=Location |
| 5 | **fly** | past · progressive | the Crows |  |  |  |  | of front | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Trajectory |

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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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