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title: In the meantime the Tsarítsa got off her throne and arrayed herself… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the Tsarítsa got off her throne and arrayed herself as the harpist, went into the courtyard and began to play the _gusli_. 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 51

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In the meantime the Tsarítsa got off her throne and arrayed herself as the harpist, went into the courtyard and began to play the \_gusli\_.

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**Who acts:** Tsarítsa · **What happens:** get off, array, go, begin, play · **To what, where:** throne, meantime, Tsarítsa, courtyard, gusli

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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:pg62509:10:51
# text = In the meantime the Tsarítsa got off her throne and arrayed herself as the harpist, went into the courtyard and began to play the _gusli_.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsarítsa	Tsarítsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	harpist	harpist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	gusli	gusli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get off** | past | the Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa's throne |  | the meantime |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer throne=Stimulus |
| 2 | **array** | past | the Tsarítsa *not said here* | Tsarítsa |  |  |  | as the harpist | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Tsarítsa *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the Tsarítsa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Tsarítsa *not said here* | the gusli |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gusli=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 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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