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title: Whilst they were all running after the arrow Iván Tsarévich opened t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst they were all running after the arrow Iván Tsarévich opened the iron tower and freed the Woodsprite. Who acts: nurses. 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 61

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Whilst they were all running after the arrow Iván Tsarévich opened the iron tower and freed the Woodsprite.

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**Who acts:** nurses · **What happens:** run, open, free · **To what, where:** iron tower, Woodsprite

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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 (nurses), 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:pg62509:17:61
# text = Whilst they were all running after the arrow Iván Tsarévich opened the iron tower and freed the Woodsprite.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | nurses *= nurse* |  |  |  | after the arrow | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past |  | the iron tower |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tower=Theme |
| 3 | **free** | past |  | the Woodsprite |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer woodsprite=Source |

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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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