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title: So they flew thither, and the mother and eldest sister were ever so… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they flew thither, and the mother and eldest sister were ever so glad to see them, and they received the Tsar with honour and affection. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 86

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So they flew thither, and the mother and eldest sister were ever so glad to see them, and they received the Tsar with honour and affection.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** fly, be, see, receive · **To what, where:** mother, Tsar

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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 (mother), 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:pg62509:29:86
# text = So they flew thither, and the mother and eldest sister were ever so glad to see them, and they received the Tsar with honour and affection.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mother and eldest sister |  |  |  | ever | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the mother and eldest sister *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **receive** | past | mother | the Tsar |  |  |  | with honour and affection | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |

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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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