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title: As soon as the King had said this, the Crow with Master Crow sailed… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the King had said this, the Crow with Master Crow sailed to the right, but Madam Crow to the left. Who acts: King, Crow. 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 110

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As soon as the King had said this, the Crow with Master Crow sailed to the right, but Madam Crow to the left.

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**Who acts:** King, Crow · **What happens:** say, sail · **To what, where:** this, Madam Crow, right · **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 (King, Crow), 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:pg62509:6:110
# text = As soon as the King had said this, the Crow with Master Crow sailed to the right, but Madam Crow to the left.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Crow	Crow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Madam	Madam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the King | this |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | past | the Crow with Master Crow | Madam Crow to the left |  | the right |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to right=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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