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title: The Tsar gladly promised this, for he could think of naught else tha… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar gladly promised this, for he could think of naught else that he had, and then the Accursed One let him go. Who acts: Tsar, One. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 78

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The Tsar gladly promised this, for he could think of naught else that he had, and then the Accursed One let him go.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, One · **What happens:** promise, think, have, accurs, let, go · **To what, where:** this, TSAR

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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, One), 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:pg29672:4:78
# text = The Tsar gladly promised this, for he could think of naught else that he had, and then the Accursed One let him go.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	obl	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Tsar | this |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | could | TSAR |  |  |  |  | of naught | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | TSAR |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accurs** | participle | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | One | TSAR |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | TSAR *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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