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title: And a clear-eyed Hawk came into the room, struck the ground, and tur… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And a clear-eyed Hawk came into the room, struck the ground, and turned himself into a fair, doughty youth: “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! before, I came to you as a guest, now I am coming to ask for your sister’s hand: I wish to marry Márya Tsarévna.” Who acts: eyed Hawk, Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 45

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And a clear-eyed Hawk came into the room, struck the ground, and turned himself into a fair, doughty youth: “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! before, I came to you as a guest, now I am coming to ask for your sister’s hand: I wish to marry Márya Tsarévna.”

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**Who acts:** eyed Hawk, Iván · **What happens:** come, strike, turn, ask, wish, marry · **To what, where:** room, ground, Hawk, fair doughty youth, you, Márya

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyed Hawk, Iván), 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:pg62509:23:45
# text = And a clear-eyed Hawk came into the room, struck the ground, and turned himself into a fair, doughty youth: “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! before, I came to you as a guest, now I am coming to ask for your sister’s hand: I wish to marry Márya Tsarévna.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
59	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a eyed Hawk |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **strike** | past | a eyed Hawk *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | a eyed Hawk *not said here* | Hawk |  | a fair doughty youth |  | before *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into youth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Iván |  | you |  |  | as a guest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Iván |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your sister's hand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | Márya |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent márya=Patient |

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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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