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title: Very many of them he liked, only as soon as he put the ring on their… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Very many of them he liked, only as soon as he put the ring on their finger it was either too broad or too narrow. Who acts: many, boy, ring. 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 131

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Very many of them he liked, only as soon as he put the ring on their finger it was either too broad or too narrow.

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**Who acts:** many, boy, ring · **What happens:** like, put, be · **To what, where:** ring, finger

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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 (many, boy, ring), 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:pg62509:8:131
# text = Very many of them he liked, only as soon as he put the ring on their finger it was either too broad or too narrow.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | many of children |  |  |  |  | boy *nsubj*; soon *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **put** | past | boy | the ring |  | children's finger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | ring | children's finger *not said here* |  |  |  | broad, either *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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