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title: He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden broca… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden brocade, and at every side-path he posted journeymen and servants to keep out all the hunger-brothers and scare them outside. Who acts: MARK. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tre
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

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He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden brocade, and at every side-path he posted journeymen and servants to keep out all the hunger-brothers and scare them outside.

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**Who acts:** MARK · **What happens:** cover, post, keep out, scare · **To what, where:** courtyard, journeymen, side path, hunger brothers

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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 (MARK), 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:pg62509:8:91
# text = He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden brocade, and at every side-path he posted journeymen and servants to keep out all the hunger-brothers and scare them outside.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	posted	post	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | MARK | MARK's courtyard |  |  |  | with scarlet velvet and golden brocade | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent courtyard=Destination with velvet=Theme |
| 2 | **post** | past | MARK | journeymen and servants |  | every side path |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journeyman=Theme |
| 3 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | MARK *not said here* | all hunger brothers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 4 | **scare** | infinitive | MARK *not said here* | journeymen *= journeyman* |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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