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title: Ólga Tsarévna at once came to meet him, began kissing and welcoming… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ólga Tsarévna at once came to meet him, began kissing and welcoming him, asking how he was, and they told of all they had lived and done. Who acts: Ólga, Iván, oaks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 98

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Ólga Tsarévna at once came to meet him, began kissing and welcoming him, asking how he was, and they told of all they had lived and done.

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**Who acts:** Ólga, Iván, oaks · **What happens:** come, meet, begin, kiss, welcome, ask · **To what, where:** Iván · **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 (Ólga, Iván, oaks), 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:pg62509:23:98
# text = Ólga Tsarévna at once came to meet him, began kissing and welcoming him, asking how he was, and they told of all they had lived and done.
1	Ólga	Ólga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	welcoming	welcome	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ólga |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Ólga *not said here* | Iván |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Ólga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kiss** | gerund | Ólga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **welcome** | gerund | Ólga *not said here* | Iván |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Ólga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **be** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | oaks *= oak* |  |  |  |  | of all | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **live** | past · perfect | oaks *= oak* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **do** | participle | oaks *= oak* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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