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title: “Do not touch it, Iván Tsarévich,” the lioness said; “at some time o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do not touch it, Iván Tsarévich,” the lioness said; “at some time or other I shall be of service to you.” Who acts: lioness, time. 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 45

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“Do not touch it, Iván Tsarévich,” the lioness said; “at some time or other I shall be of service to you.”

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**Who acts:** lioness, time · **What happens:** not touch, say, be · **To what, where:** lioness, you · **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 (lioness, time), 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:pg62509:24:45
# text = “Do not touch it, Iván Tsarévich,” the lioness said; “at some time or other I shall be of service to you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | lioness |  |  |  | Iván *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer iván=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lioness |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | some time |  | you |  |  | of service; I *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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