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title: And the Tsar was even more angry, and he asked Prince Evstáfi: “What… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Tsar was even more angry, and he asked Prince Evstáfi: “What is this new insolence of yours?” Who acts: Tsar, Tsarévich, Evstáfi. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 36

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And the Tsar was even more angry, and he asked Prince Evstáfi: “What is this new insolence of yours?”

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**Who acts:** Tsar, Tsarévich, Evstáfi · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** Evstáfi, new insolence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsar, Tsarévich, Evstáfi), 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:pg62509:18:36
# text = And the Tsar was even more angry, and he asked Prince Evstáfi: “What is this new insolence of yours?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Evstáfi	Evstáfi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tsarévich | Evstáfi  Prince |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Evstáfi  Prince | yours's new insolence |  |  |  | yours *nmod:poss* | 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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