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title: The Tsar was so glad at this that he never asked what the Tsarévich… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar was so glad at this that he never asked what the Tsarévich wanted the horse for, but ordered the very best of his _Tabún_ to be saddled for him. Who acts: Tsar, Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 146

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The Tsar was so glad at this that he never asked what the Tsarévich wanted the horse for, but ordered the very best of his \_Tabún\_ to be saddled for him.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, Tsarévich · **What happens:** be, not ask, want, order, saddle · **To what, where:** this, horse, best · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:22:146
# text = The Tsar was so glad at this that he never asked what the Tsarévich wanted the horse for, but ordered the very best of his _Tabún_ to be saddled for him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Tabún	Tabún	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Tsar |  |  | this |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | past | the Tsarévich | the horse |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme horse=Attribute |
| 4 | **order** | past |  | the best of Tsarévich's Tabún |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme |
| 5 | **saddle** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for Tsarévich | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.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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