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title: But very soon the Tsarévich was a far finer cook than all the royal… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But very soon the Tsarévich was a far finer cook than all the royal chefs. 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 88

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But very soon the Tsarévich was a far finer cook than all the royal chefs.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** far finer cook

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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:pg62509:17:88
# text = But very soon the Tsarévich was a far finer cook than all the royal chefs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	finer	finer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chefs	chef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Tsarévich | a far finer cook |  |  |  | than all royal chefs; soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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