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title: The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching him. Who acts: Tsar Maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 70

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The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching him.

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**Who acts:** Tsar Maiden · **What happens:** pursue, not succeed, catch · **To what, where:** thief, fence

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar Maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:42:70
# text = The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pursues	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | present | the Tsar Maiden | the thief |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **succeed** | present · do-support | the Tsar Maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | the Tsar Maiden *not said here* | fence |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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