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title: He then went into the open field under the green oak where Iván Tsar… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He then went into the open field under the green oak where Iván Tsarévich was waiting, and said, “Iván Tsarévich, come sit on my back, on the grey Wolf swiftly.” Who acts: Eléna, Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

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He then went into the open field under the green oak where Iván Tsarévich was waiting, and said, “Iván Tsarévich, come sit on my back, on the grey Wolf swiftly.”

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**Who acts:** Eléna, Iván · **What happens:** go, wait, say, come, sit · **To what, where:** open field, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eléna, Iván), 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:pg62509:11:18
# text = He then went into the open field under the green oak where Iván Tsarévich was waiting, and said, “Iván Tsarévich, come sit on my back, on the grey Wolf swiftly.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	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 | Eléna |  |  | the open field | then | under the green oak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | Iván Tsarévich *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | my back |  | on the grey Wolf; swiftly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |

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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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