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title: So the bath was heated, and Tsar Bárkhat sent Pope Vasíli another me… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the bath was heated, and Tsar Bárkhat sent Pope Vasíli another message that he would like to have his son Vasíli Vasílyevich as his guest; and when Vasilísa Vasílyevna heard of it she went into the stable and saddled the grey horse with the silver mane, and galloped away to Tsar Bárkhat’s courtya
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 78

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So the bath was heated, and Tsar Bárkhat sent Pope Vasíli another message that he would like to have his son Vasíli Vasílyevich as his guest; and when Vasilísa Vasílyevna heard of it she went into the stable and saddled the grey horse with the silver mane, and galloped away to Tsar Bárkhat’s courtyard.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, bade, Vasilísa · **What happens:** heat, send, like, have, hear, go · **To what, where:** bath, message, Pope, son, stable, grey horse

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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, bade, Vasilísa), 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:pg62509:18:78
# text = So the bath was heated, and Tsar Bárkhat sent Pope Vasíli another message that he would like to have his son Vasíli Vasílyevich as his guest; and when Vasilísa Vasílyevna heard of it she went into the stable and saddled the grey horse with the silver mane, and galloped away to Tsar Bárkhat’s courtyard.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Vasílyevich	Vasílyevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
53	away	away	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	_
56	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
58	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | past · passive |  | the bath |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **send** | past | Tsar | another message | Pope |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pope=Destination message=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | would | bade | another message *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bade *not said here* | bade's son |  |  |  | as bade's guest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **hear** | past | Vasilísa |  |  |  |  | of bath | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | past | Tsar |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **saddle** | past | Tsar *not said here* |  | the grey horse |  |  | with the silver mane | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with mane=Theme |
| 8 | **gallop away** | past | Tsar *not said here* |  |  | Tsar's courtyard |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Destination |

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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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