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title: Now listen, and return to your kingdom as fast as you can: your brot… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now listen, and return to your kingdom as fast as you can: your brother Vasíli is to-day going to marry your bride, Princess Eléna the Fair. Who acts: you, brother, day. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 72

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Now listen, and return to your kingdom as fast as you can: your brother Vasíli is to-day going to marry your bride, Princess Eléna the Fair.

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**Who acts:** you, brother, day · **What happens:** listen, return, be, go, marry · **To what, where:** bride

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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 (you, brother, day), 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:pg62509:11:72
# text = Now listen, and return to your kingdom as fast as you can: your brother Vasíli is to-day going to marry your bride, Princess Eléna the Fair.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your kingdom *result*; fast *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result |
| 3 | **is** | present | your brother |  |  |  | to day | Princess Eléna *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | day *not said here* | your bride |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient |

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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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