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title: THE PRINCESS WHO WOULD NOT SMILE — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE PRINCESS WHO WOULD NOT SMILE Who acts: PRINCESS. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 138

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THE PRINCESS WHO WOULD NOT SMILE

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**Who acts:** PRINCESS · **What happens:** not smile · **To what, where:** PRINCESS

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PRINCESS), 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:pg62509:16:138
# text = THE PRINCESS WHO WOULD NOT SMILE
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	WOULD	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	SMILE	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **smile** | would | the PRINCESS |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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