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title: So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness befell him, and he had to go back home. Who acts: boy, sudden sickness, sickness. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 122

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So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness befell him, and he had to go back home.

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**Who acts:** boy, sudden sickness, sickness · **What happens:** make, go, befall, have, go back · **To what, where:** distillery, boy

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, sudden sickness, sickness), 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:pg62509:8:122
# text = So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness befell him, and he had to go back home.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	distillery	distillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  | the distillery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to distillery=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **befall** | past | a sudden sickness | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | sickness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go back** | to-infinitive | sickness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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