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title: “We should be very glad to accept you, Iván Tsarévich,” they replied… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “We should be very glad to accept you, Iván Tsarévich,” they replied, “but we shall not live much longer. Who acts: We, seamstresses. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 149

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“We should be very glad to accept you, Iván Tsarévich,” they replied, “but we shall not live much longer.

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**Who acts:** We, seamstresses · **What happens:** be, accept, reply, not live · **To what, where:** you · **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 (We, seamstresses), 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:pg62509:22:149
# text = “We should be very glad to accept you, Iván Tsarévich,” they replied, “but we shall not live much longer.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | should | We |  |  |  |  | Iván *obl*; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | seamstresses *= seamstress* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **live** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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