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title: Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil of every kind and has set an ill doom on my kingdom, having turned all my people to stone. Who acts: Tsarévna, bird. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 21

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Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil of every kind and has set an ill doom on my kingdom, having turned all my people to stone.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna, bird · **What happens:** answer, be, do, set, turn · **To what, where:** own sister, evil, ill doom, kingdom, people, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, bird), 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:pg62509:25:21
# text = Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil of every kind and has set an ill doom on my kingdom, having turned all my people to stone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Tsarévna |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that bird | my own sister |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Tsarévna | evil of every kind |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Tsarévna *not said here* | a ill doom |  | my kingdom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent doom=Theme on kingdom=Destination |
| 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | Tsarévna *not said here* | my people |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme to stone=Trajectory |

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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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