--- title: The Tsar heard, ran to meet her, seized the musician by the hand, le… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Tsar heard, ran to meet her, seized the musician by the hand, led her into the palace and said to his Court, “This is the _guslyár_ who rescued me from my confinement.” Who acts: Tsar, This, guslyár, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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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 (Tsar, This, guslyár, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:10:52 # text = The Tsar heard, ran to meet her, seized the musician by the hand, led her into the palace and said to his Court, “This is the _guslyár_ who rescued me from my confinement.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 musician musician NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 guslyár guslyár NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 33 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rescued rescue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 confinement confinement NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the Tsar | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **run** | past | the Tsar *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | Tsarítsa | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 4 | **seize** | past | the Tsar *not said here* | the musician | | | | by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | past | | Tsarítsa | | the palace | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into palace=Destination | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | God's Court | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to court=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the guslyár | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **rescue** *in a quote* | past | the guslyár | me | | my confinement | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from confinement=Source | | 9 | **confine** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/53/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/10/)