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title: The Tsarítsa went by a circuitous route, reached home before her hus… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarítsa went by a circuitous route, reached home before her husband, took off her _guslyár’s_ dress and arrayed herself like an empress. Who acts: Tsarítsa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

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The Tsarítsa went by a circuitous route, reached home before her husband, took off her \_guslyár’s\_ dress and arrayed herself like an empress.

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**Who acts:** Tsarítsa · **What happens:** go, reach, take off, array · **To what, where:** dress, Tsarítsa

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa), 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:pg62509:10:40
# text = The Tsarítsa went by a circuitous route, reached home before her husband, took off her _guslyár’s_ dress and arrayed herself like an empress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsarítsa	Tsarítsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	circuitous	circuitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	guslyár	guslyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Tsarítsa |  |  |  |  | by a circuitous route | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by route=Location |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the Tsarítsa *not said here* |  |  |  | before Tsarítsa's husband | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take off** | past |  | Tsarítsa's guslyár's dress |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 4 | **array** | past |  | Tsarítsa |  |  |  | like a empress | tree rules |

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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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