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title: As soon as ever she saw the embroidery-frame she began to scold Tsar… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as ever she saw the embroidery-frame she began to scold Tsar Bárkhat: “Whatever nonsense have you hanging up there, Tsar Bárkhat? Who acts: VASILÍSA, you. 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 60

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As soon as ever she saw the embroidery-frame she began to scold Tsar Bárkhat: “Whatever nonsense have you hanging up there, Tsar Bárkhat?

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**Who acts:** VASILÍSA, you · **What happens:** see, begin, scold, hang up · **To what, where:** embroidery frame, Tsar · **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 (VASILÍSA, you), 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:pg62509:18:60
# text = As soon as ever she saw the embroidery-frame she began to scold Tsar Bárkhat: “Whatever nonsense have you hanging up there, Tsar Bárkhat?
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	nmod	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
28	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* | the embroidery frame |  |  | ever | whatever nonsense *obl*; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frame=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | past | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* | the embroidery frame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scold** | to-infinitive | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |
| 4 | **hang up** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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