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title: So all the cooks became envious and sought some opportunity of getti… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So all the cooks became envious and sought some opportunity of getting rid of the Tsarévich. Who acts: cooks, opportunity. 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 90

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So all the cooks became envious and sought some opportunity of getting rid of the Tsarévich.

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**Who acts:** cooks, opportunity · **What happens:** become, seek, get · **To what, where:** opportunity

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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 (cooks, opportunity), 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:pg62509:17:90
# text = So all the cooks became envious and sought some opportunity of getting rid of the Tsarévich.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | all cooks |  |  |  |  | envious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | all cooks *not said here* | some opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | some opportunity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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