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title: So the Tsar took Vasilísa, with her white hands, put her next to him… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tsar took Vasilísa, with her white hands, put her next to him, and bade the bells ring for the wedding. Who acts: Tsar, bells. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 60

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So the Tsar took Vasilísa, with her white hands, put her next to him, and bade the bells ring for the wedding.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, bells · **What happens:** take, put, ring · **To what, where:** Vasilísa, artist, bade

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, bells), 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:pg62509:15:60
# text = So the Tsar took Vasilísa, with her white hands, put her next to him, and bade the bells ring for the wedding.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	next	next	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Tsar |  | Vasilísa |  |  | with Vasilísa's white hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument vasilísa=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | Vasilísa | artist |  |  | next *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 3 | **ring** | present | the bells | bade |  |  |  | for the wedding | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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