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title: Thereupon the fair maiden opened her bag, and there were golden and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the fair maiden opened her bag, and there were golden and silver vessels in it which she had stolen from the devils. Who acts: fair maiden, golden vessels. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 177

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Thereupon the fair maiden opened her bag, and there were golden and silver vessels in it which she had stolen from the devils.

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**Who acts:** fair maiden, golden vessels · **What happens:** open, be, steal · **To what, where:** bag, golden vessels

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, golden vessels), 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:pg62509:9:177
# text = Thereupon the fair maiden opened her bag, and there were golden and silver vessels in it which she had stolen from the devils.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the fair maiden | maiden's bag |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | golden vessels in bag |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **steal** | past · perfect · passive |  | golden vessels in bag |  |  |  | from the devils; maiden *nsubj* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from devil=Source |

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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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