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title: Then the eagle shook the Tsar off himself, and he fell into the sea,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the eagle shook the Tsar off himself, and he fell into the sea, and he was wetted up to his knees, only the eagle did not let him drown, but supported him on his wing, and asked, “Why, Tsar my lord, why are you frightened?” Who acts: eagle, stepmother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 53

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Then the eagle shook the Tsar off himself, and he fell into the sea, and he was wetted up to his knees, only the eagle did not let him drown, but supported him on his wing, and asked, “Why, Tsar my lord, why are you frightened?”

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**Who acts:** eagle, stepmother · **What happens:** shake, fall, wett up, not let, drown, support · **To what, where:** Tsar, sea, eagle, stepmother, wing, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, stepmother), 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:pg62509:29:53
# text = Then the eagle shook the Tsar off himself, and he fell into the sea, and he was wetted up to his knees, only the eagle did not let him drown, but supported him on his wing, and asked, “Why, Tsar my lord, why are you frightened?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	wetted	wett	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
49	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | the eagle | the Tsar |  |  | then | off eagle | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme off himself=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fall** | past | eagle |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
| 3 | **wett up** | past · passive |  | eagle |  |  |  | to eagle's knees | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **let** | past · do-support | the eagle | stepmother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drown** | infinitive | stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **support** | past |  | eagle |  | eagle's wing |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **frighten** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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