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title: Alyósha set out into the open field, and he saw Túgarin Zmyéyevich,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Alyósha set out into the open field, and he saw Túgarin Zmyéyevich, who was flying in the open. Who acts: Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, 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 62

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Alyósha set out into the open field, and he saw Túgarin Zmyéyevich, who was flying in the open.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, Túgarin · **What happens:** set out, see, fly · **To what, where:** open field, Túgarin, open

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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 (Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, 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:pg62509:20:62
# text = Alyósha set out into the open field, and he saw Túgarin Zmyéyevich, who was flying in the open.
1	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Zmyéyevich	Zmyéyevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Alyósha |  |  | the open field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* | Túgarin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer túgarin=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | past · progressive | Túgarin |  |  | the open |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in open=Location |

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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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