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title: And she let the crystal apple roll about on the silver saucer, and o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she let the crystal apple roll about on the silver saucer, and on the saucer one after the other all the towns appeared in their shape; all the regiments with their banners and their arquebuses standing in warlike array, the leaders in front of the lines and the colonels in front of the platoons
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

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And she let the crystal apple roll about on the silver saucer, and on the saucer one after the other all the towns appeared in their shape; all the regiments with their banners and their arquebuses standing in warlike array, the leaders in front of the lines and the colonels in front of the platoons and the sergeants in front of their companies.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, crystal apple, towns, arquebuses · **What happens:** let, roll about, appear, stand · **To what, where:** silver saucer, saucer, warlike array

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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 (Tsar, crystal apple, towns, arquebuses), 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:pg62509:6:29
# text = And she let the crystal apple roll about on the silver saucer, and on the saucer one after the other all the towns appeared in their shape; all the regiments with their banners and their arquebuses standing in warlike array, the leaders in front of the lines and the colonels in front of the platoons and the sergeants in front of their companies.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	xcomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	regiments	regiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	arquebuses	arquebus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	appos	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	colonels	colonel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	platoons	platoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	sergeants	sergeant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  | all regiments with saucer's banners and saucer's arquebuses and the sergeants in front of saucer's companies *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll about** | present | the crystal apple |  |  | the silver saucer |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Trajectory |
| 3 | **appear** | past | all towns |  |  | the saucer |  | in saucer's shape | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | saucer's arquebuses *not said here* |  |  | warlike array |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in array=Location |

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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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