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title: So he took and undressed himself from head to foot, put a net on him… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took and undressed himself from head to foot, put a net on himself, came on a goat, came up to the Tsar at twilight, and mounted the goat at the gate, leaving the fore-feet of the goat on the courtyard and the hind feet in the street. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 62

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So he took and undressed himself from head to foot, put a net on himself, came on a goat, came up to the Tsar at twilight, and mounted the goat at the gate, leaving the fore-feet of the goat on the courtyard and the hind feet in the street.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** take, undress, put, come, come up, mount · **To what, where:** boy, head, net, twilight, goat, gate

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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 (boy), 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:pg62509:6:62
# text = So he took and undressed himself from head to foot, put a net on himself, came on a goat, came up to the Tsar at twilight, and mounted the goat at the gate, leaving the fore-feet of the goat on the courtyard and the hind feet in the street.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	undressed	undress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **undress** | past | boy *not said here* | boy |  | head |  | to foot | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | a net |  |  |  | on boy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a goat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on goat=Location |
| 5 | **come up** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  | twilight |  | to the Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tsar=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **mount** | past | boy *not said here* | the goat |  | the gate |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goat=Theme at gate=Destination |
| 7 | **leave** | gerund | boy *not said here* | the fore feet of the goat |  | the courtyard and the hind feet |  | in the street | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on courtyard=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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