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title: When it came up with Iván Tsarévich it said, “Sit on me, on the grey… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When it came up with Iván Tsarévich it said, “Sit on me, on the grey Wolf, and Princess Eléna the Fair she can ride on the golden-maned horse.” Who acts: horse, Fair. 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 42

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When it came up with Iván Tsarévich it said, “Sit on me, on the grey Wolf, and Princess Eléna the Fair she can ride on the golden-maned horse.”

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**Who acts:** horse, Fair · **What happens:** come up, say, sit, ride · **To what, where:** grey Wolf, Princess Eléna · **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 (horse, Fair), 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:pg62509:11:42
# text = When it came up with Iván Tsarévich it said, “Sit on me, on the grey Wolf, and Princess Eléna the Fair she can ride on the golden-maned horse.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | with Iván Tsarévich | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the grey Wolf |  | on horse | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location |
| 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | can | Fair | Princess Eléna |  |  |  | on the maned horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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