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title: As soon as ever she had gone, the maidens set to work again knitting… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as ever she had gone, the maidens set to work again knitting, talking and laughing. Who acts: Bába, maidens. 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 37

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As soon as ever she had gone, the maidens set to work again knitting, talking and laughing.

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**Who acts:** Bába, maidens · **What happens:** go, set, work, knit, talk, laugh

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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 (Bába, maidens), 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:pg62509:9:37
# text = As soon as ever she had gone, the maidens set to work again knitting, talking and laughing.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	knitting	knit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Bába |  |  |  | ever | soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present | the maidens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **knit** | gerund | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **laugh** | gerund | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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