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title: And then he asked leave of Tsar Afrón to go and walk in the open fie… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he asked leave of Tsar Afrón to go and walk in the open field, that he might drive out the ravening sorrow from his heart. Who acts: Tsar. 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 32

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And then he asked leave of Tsar Afrón to go and walk in the open field, that he might drive out the ravening sorrow from his heart.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** ask, go, walk, drive out · **To what, where:** leave, open field, ravening sorrow, heart · **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 (Tsar), 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:pg62509:11:32
# text = And then he asked leave of Tsar Afrón to go and walk in the open field, that he might drive out the ravening sorrow from his heart.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Afrón	Afrón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ravening	ravening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tsar | leave of Tsar |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive |  |  |  | the open field |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drive out** | might | Tsar | the ravening sorrow |  | Tsar's heart |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from heart=Trajectory |

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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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