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title: Túgarin Zmyéyevich flew into the open and challenged Alyósha Popóvic… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Túgarin Zmyéyevich flew into the open and challenged Alyósha Popóvich to fight him in the open field. Who acts: Túgarin. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 56

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Túgarin Zmyéyevich flew into the open and challenged Alyósha Popóvich to fight him in the open field.

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**Who acts:** Túgarin · **What happens:** fly, challenge, fight · **To what, where:** open, Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, open field

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Túgarin), 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:pg62509:20:56
# text = Túgarin Zmyéyevich flew into the open and challenged Alyósha Popóvich to fight him in the open field.
1	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Zmyéyevich	Zmyéyevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Túgarin |  |  |  |  | into the open *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into open=Result |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | Túgarin *not said here* | Alyósha |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Túgarin *not said here* | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  | the open field |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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