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title: “Into the subterranean realm, to the Accursèd Tsar, where they dance… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Into the subterranean realm, to the Accursèd Tsar, where they danced all night long.” Who acts: shoes. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 20

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“Into the subterranean realm, to the Accursèd Tsar, where they danced all night long.”

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**Who acts:** shoes · **What happens:** dance · **To what, where:** subterranean realm

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes), 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:pg62509:14:20
# text = “Into the subterranean realm, to the Accursèd Tsar, where they danced all night long.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Accursèd	Accursèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** *in a quote* | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  | the subterranean realm to the Accursèd Tsar |  | long *property* | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme into realm=Trajectory |

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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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