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title: Tsar Bárkhat obeyed the counsel of his ancient evil housekeeper and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tsar Bárkhat obeyed the counsel of his ancient evil housekeeper and ordered his attendants to hang an embroidery-frame and a flint-lock up in the palace. Who acts: Tsar, attendants. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 54

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Tsar Bárkhat obeyed the counsel of his ancient evil housekeeper and ordered his attendants to hang an embroidery-frame and a flint-lock up in the palace.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, attendants · **What happens:** obey, order, hang, lock up · **To what, where:** counsel, attendants, embroidery frame, flint, palace

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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, attendants), 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:pg62509:18:54
# text = Tsar Bárkhat obeyed the counsel of his ancient evil housekeeper and ordered his attendants to hang an embroidery-frame and a flint-lock up in the palace.
1	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lock	lock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | Tsar | the counsel of King's ancient evil housekeeper |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | Tsar *not said here* | King's attendants |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hang** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King's attendants *not said here* | a embroidery frame |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient |
| 4 | **lock up** | present | Tsar *not said here* | a flint |  | the palace |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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