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title: Then Tsar Výslav Andrónovich stood up from his place and began to as… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Tsar Výslav Andrónovich stood up from his place and began to ask, and began to question the Princess Eléna the Fair what this might mean. Who acts: Tsar, this. 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 78

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Then Tsar Výslav Andrónovich stood up from his place and began to ask, and began to question the Princess Eléna the Fair what this might mean.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, this · **What happens:** stand up, begin, ask, question, mean · **To what, where:** place, 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 (Tsar, 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:pg62509:11:78
# text = Then Tsar Výslav Andrónovich stood up from his place and began to ask, and began to question the Princess Eléna the Fair what this might mean.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Výslav	Výslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Andrónovich	Andrónovich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | Tsar |  |  | Tsar's place | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | the Princess Eléna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | might | this |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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