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title: One day, the Tsarévich, with his nurses and attendants and very many… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, the Tsarévich, with his nurses and attendants and very many faithful servant-maids, went into the garden to play. Who acts: Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 52

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One day, the Tsarévich, with his nurses and attendants and very many faithful servant-maids, went into the garden to play.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich · **What happens:** go, play · **To what, where:** garden

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:17:52
# text = One day, the Tsarévich, with his nurses and attendants and very many faithful servant-maids, went into the garden to play.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Tsarévich |  |  | the garden | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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