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title: Márya Moryévna listened, told Iván Tsarévich all about it, and he to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Márya Moryévna listened, told Iván Tsarévich all about it, and he took the cloth away. Who acts: Márya. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 33

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Márya Moryévna listened, told Iván Tsarévich all about it, and he took the cloth away.

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**Who acts:** Márya · **What happens:** listen, tell, take away · **To what, where:** Iván, cloth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya), 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:pg62509:24:33
# text = Márya Moryévna listened, told Iván Tsarévich all about it, and he took the cloth away.
1	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Márya |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Márya *not said here* |  | Iván |  |  | about bridge | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient about it=Topic |
| 3 | **take away** | past | Márya | the cloth |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=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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