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title: So they chattered along; and soon, at the right time before the moth… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they chattered along; and soon, at the right time before the mother came, the fair maiden turned her guest into a needle, stuck her into the besom and put it on one side. Who acts: doors, mother, fair maiden. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its depende
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

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So they chattered along; and soon, at the right time before the mother came, the fair maiden turned her guest into a needle, stuck her into the besom and put it on one side.

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**Who acts:** doors, mother, fair maiden · **What happens:** chatter, come, turn, stick, put · **To what, where:** guest, needle, maiden, besom, one side

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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 (doors, mother, fair maiden), 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:pg62509:9:29
# text = So they chattered along; and soon, at the right time before the mother came, the fair maiden turned her guest into a needle, stuck her into the besom and put it on one side.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	besom	besom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** | past | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the fair maiden | maiden's guest |  | a needle | time | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent guest=Theme into needle=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stick** | past |  | maiden |  | the besom |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into besom=Destination |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive |  | guest |  | one side |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination |

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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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