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title: Then Alyósha cut off his turbulent head, and he took the turbulent h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Alyósha cut off his turbulent head, and he took the turbulent head to Prince Vladímir. Who acts: Alyósha, ALYÓSHA. 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 71

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Then Alyósha cut off his turbulent head, and he took the turbulent head to Prince Vladímir.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, ALYÓSHA · **What happens:** cut off, take · **To what, where:** turbulent head, Prince

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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), 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:pg62509:20:71
# text = Then Alyósha cut off his turbulent head, and he took the turbulent head to Prince Vladímir.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	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 | **cut off** | past | Alyósha | ALYÓSHA's turbulent head |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* | the turbulent head | Prince |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to prince=Destination |

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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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