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title: “If you wish it, mighty Tsar,” Vasilísa Vasílyevna answered. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you wish it, mighty Tsar,” Vasilísa Vasílyevna answered. Who acts: you, Vasilísa. 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 84

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“If you wish it, mighty Tsar,” Vasilísa Vasílyevna answered.

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**Who acts:** you, Vasilísa · **What happens:** wish, answer · **To what, where:** wine · **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 (you, 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:pg62509:18:84
# text = “If you wish it, mighty Tsar,” Vasilísa Vasílyevna answered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | wine |  |  |  | mighty Tsar *vocative* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Vasilísa |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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