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title: “I have served you well, Iván Tsarévich,” the grey Wolf replied, “an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have served you well, Iván Tsarévich,” the grey Wolf replied, “and I will serve you yet this service. Who acts: grey Wolf. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 25

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“I have served you well, Iván Tsarévich,” the grey Wolf replied, “and I will serve you yet this service.

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**Who acts:** grey Wolf · **What happens:** serve, reply · **To what, where:** you · **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 (grey Wolf), 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:pg62509:11:25
# text = “I have served you well, Iván Tsarévich,” the grey Wolf replied, “and I will serve you yet this service.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the grey Wolf *= wolf* | you |  |  |  | Iván *obl:agent*; well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the grey Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | future | the grey Wolf *= wolf* | you |  |  |  | this service *obl* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |

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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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