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title: Iván Tsarévich went on his way and rode with Eléna the Fair, and the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván Tsarévich went on his way and rode with Eléna the Fair, and they had almost forgotten the grey Wolf, when he suddenly recollected: “Oh, where is my grey Wolf?” Who acts: Iván, way. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 34

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Iván Tsarévich went on his way and rode with Eléna the Fair, and they had almost forgotten the grey Wolf, when he suddenly recollected: “Oh, where is my grey Wolf?”

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**Who acts:** Iván, way · **What happens:** go, forget, recollect, be · **To what, where:** way, grey Wolf

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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 (Iván, way), 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:pg62509:11:34
# text = Iván Tsarévich went on his way and rode with Eléna the Fair, and they had almost forgotten the grey Wolf, when he suddenly recollected: “Oh, where is my grey Wolf?”
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	recollected	recollect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Iván |  |  | Iván's way and rode with Eléna |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | way | the grey Wolf |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **recollect** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my grey Wolf |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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