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title: So the Tsarévich abode as their guest for three days, and then said,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tsarévich abode as their guest for three days, and then said, “I cannot stay with you any longer: I am going to seek my wife Márya Moryévna the fair Queen.” Who acts: Tsarévich abode. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 93

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So the Tsarévich abode as their guest for three days, and then said, “I cannot stay with you any longer: I am going to seek my wife Márya Moryévna the fair Queen.”

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich abode · **What happens:** say, not stay, go, seek · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsarévich abode), 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:pg62509:23:93
# text = So the Tsarévich abode as their guest for three days, and then said, “I cannot stay with you any longer: I am going to seek my wife Márya Moryévna the fair Queen.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | can | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days *= abode* |  |  |  |  | with you; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days *= abode* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich abode as oaks's guest for three days *= abode* *not said here* | my wife |  |  |  | the fair Queen *obl:unmarked* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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