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title: In the Tsar’s palace, in the Prince’s chamber, every day the Princes… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Tsar’s palace, in the Prince’s chamber, every day the Princess Without a Smile grew fairer. Who acts: day. 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 141

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In the Tsar’s palace, in the Prince’s chamber, every day the Princess Without a Smile grew fairer.

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**Who acts:** day · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** palace

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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 (day), 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:pg62509:16:142
# text = In the Tsar’s palace, in the Prince’s chamber, every day the Princess Without a Smile grew fairer.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Smile	Smile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | every day |  |  | the Tsar's palace and the Prince's chamber |  | fair *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |

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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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