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title: “Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.” Who acts: father, one. 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 146

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“Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.”

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**Who acts:** father, one · **What happens:** come, say, try, enliven, succeed, gain · **To what, where:** Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father, one), 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:pg62509:16:147
# text = “Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	enliven	enliven	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **enliven** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Princess |  |  |  | without a Smile | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer |
| 6 | **succeed** *in a quote* | present | any one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **gain** *in a quote* | shall | any one | PRINCESS |  |  |  | as father's wife | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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