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title: Now it happened at this time that the brothers of Iván Tsarévich, Dm… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened at this time that the brothers of Iván Tsarévich, Dmítri and Vasíli, were riding out in different states and could not find the Bird of Light. Who acts: it, brothers. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 47

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Now it happened at this time that the brothers of Iván Tsarévich, Dmítri and Vasíli, were riding out in different states and could not find the Bird of Light.

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**Who acts:** it, brothers · **What happens:** happen, ride out, not find · **To what, where:** different states, Bird

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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 (it, brothers), 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:pg62509:11:47
# text = Now it happened at this time that the brothers of Iván Tsarévich, Dmítri and Vasíli, were riding out in different states and could not find the Bird of Light.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Dmítri	Dmítri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride out** | past · progressive | the brothers of Iván Tsarévich and Dmítri and Vasíli |  |  | different states |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | the brothers of Iván Tsarévich and Dmítri and Vasíli *not said here* | the Bird of Light |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |

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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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