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title: When Eléna the Fair saw Iván Tsarévich, she jumped up at once from h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Eléna the Fair saw Iván Tsarévich, she jumped up at once from her chair and began to kiss his sweet lips and to cry out, “O my beloved bridegroom, Iván Tsarévich: this is he, and not that other who sits at table.” Who acts: Eléna, Fair, this. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'e
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 77

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When Eléna the Fair saw Iván Tsarévich, she jumped up at once from her chair and began to kiss his sweet lips and to cry out, “O my beloved bridegroom, Iván Tsarévich: this is he, and not that other who sits at table.”

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**Who acts:** Eléna, Fair, this · **What happens:** see, jump up, begin, kiss, cry out, not be · **To what, where:** Iván, chair, sweet lips, beloved bridegroom, table · **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 (Eléna, Fair, this), 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:pg62509:11:77
# text = When Eléna the Fair saw Iván Tsarévich, she jumped up at once from her chair and began to kiss his sweet lips and to cry out, “O my beloved bridegroom, Iván Tsarévich: this is he, and not that other who sits at table.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Eléna | Iván |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iván=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump up** | past | Fair |  |  | Fair's chair |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Fair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | Fair *not said here* | Iván's sweet lips |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Fair *not said here* | my beloved bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | Iván *nsubj*; other *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sit** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | table |  | who *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |

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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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