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title: Then Dmítri Tsarévich put his sword to the breast of fair Princess E… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Dmítri Tsarévich put his sword to the breast of fair Princess Eléna: “Listen, Eléna the Fair, you are now in our hands: we will take you to our father, Tsar Výslav Andrónovich, and you are to tell him that we found you and the Bird of Light and the golden-maned steed. Who acts: Dmítri, Výslav, 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 56

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Then Dmítri Tsarévich put his sword to the breast of fair Princess Eléna: “Listen, Eléna the Fair, you are now in our hands: we will take you to our father, Tsar Výslav Andrónovich, and you are to tell him that we found you and the Bird of Light and the golden-maned steed.

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**Who acts:** Dmítri, Výslav, we · **What happens:** put, listen, be, take, tell, find · **To what, where:** sword, Eléna, hands, Výslav · **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 (Dmítri, Výslav, we), 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:pg62509:11:56
# text = Then Dmítri Tsarévich put his sword to the breast of fair Princess Eléna: “Listen, Eléna the Fair, you are now in our hands: we will take you to our father, Tsar Výslav Andrónovich, and you are to tell him that we found you and the Bird of Light and the golden-maned steed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Dmítri	Dmítri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Výslav	Výslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
39	Andrónovich	Andrónovich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	ccomp	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
58	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Dmítri | Dmítri's sword |  |  | then | to the breast of fair Princess | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dmítri *not said here* | Eléna |  |  |  | the Fair *obl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Výslav |  |  | our hands | now | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | future | we | Výslav |  |  |  | to our father; Tsar Výslav *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme výslav=Destination |
| 5 | **does** *in a quote* | present | Výslav |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Výslav *not said here* |  | Výslav |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | past | we | Výslav |  |  |  | the Bird of Light and the maned steed *conj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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