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title: The apprentice was very pleased with the dish, swallowed it all, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The apprentice was very pleased with the dish, swallowed it all, and became neither a king nor a king’s son, but simply a fool. Who acts: apprentice. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 124

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The apprentice was very pleased with the dish, swallowed it all, and became neither a king nor a king’s son, but simply a fool.

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**Who acts:** apprentice · **What happens:** be, swallow, become · **To what, where:** dish, king

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apprentice), 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:pg62509:7:124
# text = The apprentice was very pleased with the dish, swallowed it all, and became neither a king nor a king’s son, but simply a fool.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the apprentice |  |  |  |  | with the dish; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | the apprentice *not said here* | dish |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | the apprentice *not said here* | a king nor a king's son |  |  |  | a fool *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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