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title: So they took the Tsarévich as scullion, let him draw water and hew w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they took the Tsarévich as scullion, let him draw water and hew wood. Who acts: men, Tsar. 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 87

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So they took the Tsarévich as scullion, let him draw water and hew wood.

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**Who acts:** men, Tsar · **What happens:** take, let, draw, hew · **To what, where:** Tsarévich, Tsar, water, wood

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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 (men, Tsar), 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:pg62509:17:87
# text = So they took the Tsarévich as scullion, let him draw water and hew wood.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hew	hew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | men *= man* | the Tsarévich |  |  |  | as scullion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tsarévich=Theme as scullion=Attribute |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **hew** | present | Tsar *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |

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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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