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title: THE TALE OF IVÁN TSARÉVICH, THE BIRD OF LIGHT, AND THE GREY WOLF — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE TALE OF IVÁN TSARÉVICH, THE BIRD OF LIGHT, AND THE GREY WOLF 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 55

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THE TALE OF IVÁN TSARÉVICH, THE BIRD OF LIGHT, AND THE GREY WOLF

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**To what, where:** TALE

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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: 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:pg62509:10:55
# text = THE TALE OF IVÁN TSARÉVICH, THE BIRD OF LIGHT, AND THE GREY WOLF
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TALE	TALE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	IVÁN	IVÁN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	TSARÉVICH	TSARÉVICH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	BIRD	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	LIGHT	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	GREY	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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