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title: THE PRINCESS TO BE KISSED AT A CHARGE — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE PRINCESS TO BE KISSED AT A CHARGE A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 99

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THE PRINCESS TO BE KISSED AT A CHARGE

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**What happens:** kiss · **To what, where:** CHARGE, PRINCESS

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:26:99
# text = THE PRINCESS TO BE KISSED AT A CHARGE
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	TO	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	BE	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	KISSED	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	CHARGE	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | a CHARGE |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |

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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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