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title: The Tsarévich took the golden Bird, went outside the town, sat on th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarévich took the golden Bird, went outside the town, sat on the golden-maned horse together with the Princess Eléna, and went back to his own country. Who acts: Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

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The Tsarévich took the golden Bird, went outside the town, sat on the golden-maned horse together with the Princess Eléna, and went back to his own country.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich · **What happens:** take, go, sit, go back · **To what, where:** golden Bird, town

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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 (Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:11:40
# text = The Tsarévich took the golden Bird, went outside the town, sat on the golden-maned horse together with the Princess Eléna, and went back to his own country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Tsarévich |  | the golden Bird |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Tsarévich *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside town=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the Tsarévich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the golden maned horse; with the Princess Eléna; together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location |
| 4 | **go back** | past | the Tsarévich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Bird's own country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |

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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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