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title: THE SOLDIER AND THE TSAR IN THE FOREST — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE SOLDIER AND THE TSAR IN THE FOREST A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 1

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THE SOLDIER AND THE TSAR IN THE FOREST

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**To what, where:** SOLDIER

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:19:1
# text = THE SOLDIER AND THE TSAR IN THE FOREST
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SOLDIER	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	TSAR	TSAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	FOREST	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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