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title: Then the old man took the morsels of the Tsarévna’s body, bit by bit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the old man took the morsels of the Tsarévna’s body, bit by bit, breathed on them, and she arose alive and well. Who acts: old man, Tsarévna. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

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Then the old man took the morsels of the Tsarévna’s body, bit by bit, breathed on them, and she arose alive and well.

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**Who acts:** old man, Tsarévna · **What happens:** take, breathe, arise · **To what, where:** morsels, bit

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Tsarévna), 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:pg62509:12:90
# text = Then the old man took the morsels of the Tsarévna’s body, bit by bit, breathed on them, and she arose alive and well.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	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 | **take** | past | the old man | the morsels of the Tsarévna's body |  |  | then | bit by bit *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe** | participle |  | bit by bit *not said here* |  |  |  | on bits *= bit* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination |
| 3 | **arise** | past | Tsarévna |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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