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title: So he went back to the forbidden lands of the fair princess, began b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went back to the forbidden lands of the fair princess, began beating the barrel, and an enormous army came out; infantry, cavalry and artillery, with cannon and with powder waggons. Who acts: youth, enormous army. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 33

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So he went back to the forbidden lands of the fair princess, began beating the barrel, and an enormous army came out; infantry, cavalry and artillery, with cannon and with powder waggons.

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**Who acts:** youth, enormous army · **What happens:** go back, begin, beat, come out · **To what, where:** barrel, infantry

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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 (youth, enormous army), 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:pg62509:8:33
# text = So he went back to the forbidden lands of the fair princess, began beating the barrel, and an enormous army came out; infantry, cavalry and artillery, with cannon and with powder waggons.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	infantry	infantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	artillery	artillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	waggons	waggon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | to the forbidden lands of the fair princess *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |
| 2 | **begin** | past | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | youth *not said here* | the barrel |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barrel=Theme |
| 4 | **come out** | past | a enormous army | infantry and cavalry and artillery |  |  |  | cannon and powder waggons *parataxis*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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