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title: Iván Tsarévich crossed the river of fire and he reached the Bába Yag… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván Tsarévich crossed the river of fire and he reached the Bába Yagá: but journeying afar, neither eating nor drinking. Who acts: Iván, fire. 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 34

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Iván Tsarévich crossed the river of fire and he reached the Bába Yagá: but journeying afar, neither eating nor drinking.

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**Who acts:** Iván, fire · **What happens:** cross, reach, journey, eat, drink · **To what, where:** river, Bába Yagá

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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 (Iván, fire), 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:pg62509:24:34
# text = Iván Tsarévich crossed the river of fire and he reached the Bába Yagá: but journeying afar, neither eating nor drinking.
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | Iván | the river of fire |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | fire | the Bába Yagá |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent yagá=Theme |
| 3 | **journey** | gerund | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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