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title: But before ever the Tsar had had time to undress in the front room,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But before ever the Tsar had had time to undress in the front room, she was in the bath and out of it, so quick was she, and the Tsar was as puzzled as ever. Who acts: Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 86

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But before ever the Tsar had had time to undress in the front room, she was in the bath and out of it, so quick was she, and the Tsar was as puzzled as ever.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** have, undress, be, puzzle · **To what, where:** front room, bath, 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 (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:pg62509:18:86
# text = But before ever the Tsar had had time to undress in the front room, she was in the bath and out of it, so quick was she, and the Tsar was as puzzled as ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	undress	undress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the Tsar |  |  |  | time | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **undress** | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  | the front room |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Tsar |  |  | the bath |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Tsar |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **puzzle** | past · passive |  | Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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