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title: Then, from some source unknown, he stood in front of Iván Tsarévich… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, from some source unknown, he stood in front of Iván Tsarévich and said, “Sit on me, Iván Tsarévich, on the grey Wolf, and the fair Princess can go on the golden-maned steed.” Who acts: Iván, fair Princess. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its depend
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 35

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Then, from some source unknown, he stood in front of Iván Tsarévich and said, “Sit on me, Iván Tsarévich, on the grey Wolf, and the fair Princess can go on the golden-maned steed.”

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**Who acts:** Iván, fair Princess · **What happens:** stand, say, sit, go · **To what, where:** source, Iván, grey Wolf, maned steed · **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 (Iván, fair Princess), 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:pg62509:11:35
# text = Then, from some source unknown, he stood in front of Iván Tsarévich and said, “Sit on me, Iván Tsarévich, on the grey Wolf, and the fair Princess can go on the golden-maned steed.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Iván |  |  | some source | then | in front of Iván | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Iván |  | the grey Wolf |  | on Iván | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | can | the fair Princess |  |  | the maned steed |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on steed=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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