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title: “I am frightened, Iván Tsarévich; if Koshchéy catches us up you will… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am frightened, Iván Tsarévich; if Koshchéy catches us up you will again be torn to atoms.” Who acts: Koshchéy. 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 89

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“I am frightened, Iván Tsarévich; if Koshchéy catches us up you will again be torn to atoms.”

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**Who acts:** Koshchéy · **What happens:** frighten, catch up, tear · **To what, where:** God, us, you

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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 (Koshchéy), 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:pg62509:24:89
# text = “I am frightened, Iván Tsarévich; if Koshchéy catches us up you will again be torn to atoms.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | God |  |  |  | Iván *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer iván=Result |
| 2 | **catch up** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Koshchéy | us |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **tear** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | you |  |  | again | to atoms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to atom=Result |

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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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