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title: There was a feast in the palace: the front steps glittered and glowe… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a feast in the palace: the front steps glittered and glowed as though with flame, like the sun enwreathed in his beams. Who acts: feast. 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 48

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There was a feast in the palace: the front steps glittered and glowed as though with flame, like the sun enwreathed in his beams.

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**Who acts:** feast · **What happens:** be, glitter, glow, enwreath, beam · **To what, where:** palace, front steps, sun, beams

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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 (feast), 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:pg62509:6:48
# text = There was a feast in the palace: the front steps glittered and glowed as though with flame, like the sun enwreathed in his beams.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	though	though	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	enwreathed	enwreath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a feast |  |  | the palace; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **glitter** | participle |  | the front steps and the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as flame | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enwreath** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  | feast's beams |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **beam** |  | feast |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «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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