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title: Then there came the pie, and as soon as even Vasilísa Vasílyevna’s s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there came the pie, and as soon as even Vasilísa Vasílyevna’s spoon touched it, it tingled on the pearls; and she flung them and the pie under the table, and began to scold the Tsar. Who acts: pie, Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependenc
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

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Then there came the pie, and as soon as even Vasilísa Vasílyevna’s spoon touched it, it tingled on the pearls; and she flung them and the pie under the table, and began to scold the Tsar.

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**Who acts:** pie, Tsar · **What happens:** come, touch, tingle, fling, begin, scold · **To what, where:** pie, pearls, Tsar

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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 (pie, Tsar), 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:pg62509:18:71
# text = Then there came the pie, and as soon as even Vasilísa Vasílyevna’s spoon touched it, it tingled on the pearls; and she flung them and the pie under the table, and began to scold the Tsar.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	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	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
15	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tingled	tingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the pie |  |  | there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | past |  | pie |  |  |  | as Vasilísa spoon; soon *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **tingle** | past | pie |  |  | the pearls |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fling** | past | Tsar | pearls *= pearl* |  |  |  | the pie under the table *conj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the pie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **scold** | to-infinitive | the pie *not said here* | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |

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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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