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title: Some time went by, not too much, not too little, and the ship arrive… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time went by, not too much, not too little, and the ship arrived at the city of Khvalynsk; and, for very many years, in front of the palace of the King of Khvalynsk, a Crow, with his wife and child, had been flying and screeching, giving no rest either by day or night. Who acts: time, ship. A s
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 96

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Some time went by, not too much, not too little, and the ship arrived at the city of Khvalynsk; and, for very many years, in front of the palace of the King of Khvalynsk, a Crow, with his wife and child, had been flying and screeching, giving no rest either by day or night.

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**Who acts:** time, ship · **What happens:** go by, arrive, fly, screech, give · **To what, where:** city, rest

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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 (time, ship), 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:pg62509:6:96
# text = Some time went by, not too much, not too little, and the ship arrived at the city of Khvalynsk; and, for very many years, in front of the palace of the King of Khvalynsk, a Crow, with his wife and child, had been flying and screeching, giving no rest either by day or night.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Khvalynsk	Khvalynsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Khvalynsk	Khvalynsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	aux	_	_
53	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
58	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	59	det	_	_
59	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	57	advmod	_	_
61	by	by	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
63	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past | some time |  |  |  | year |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the ship |  |  | the city of Khvalynsk |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past · perfect · progressive | some time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **screech** | gerund | some time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | some time *not said here* | no rest |  |  | day | either *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

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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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