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title: And the Tsarévich went to the silversmith’s and ordered him to make… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Tsarévich went to the silversmith’s and ordered him to make three chests—one of gold, one of silver, and for the third he was simply to divide a stump into two, to mortise out a trough, and to attach a lock. Who acts: Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening,
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 30

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And the Tsarévich went to the silversmith’s and ordered him to make three chests—one of gold, one of silver, and for the third he was simply to divide a stump into two, to mortise out a trough, and to attach a lock.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich · **What happens:** go, order, make, be, mortise out, attach · **To what, where:** silversmith, Tsarévich, three chests, two, trough, lock

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. 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:pg62509:18:30
# text = And the Tsarévich went to the silversmith’s and ordered him to make three chests—one of gold, one of silver, and for the third he was simply to divide a stump into two, to mortise out a trough, and to attach a lock.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	silversmith	silversmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	mortise	mortise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 silversmith |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to silversmith=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **order** | past | the Tsarévich *not said here* |  | Tsarévich |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich *not said here* | three chests |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chest=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | Tsarévich |  |  | two |  | for the third; a stump *obj*; divide, simply *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mortise out** | to-infinitive | Tsarévich *not said here* | a trough |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **attach** | to-infinitive | Tsarévich *not said here* | a lock |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=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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