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title: But Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise were leaping far off on the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise were leaping far off on their swift steeds. Who acts: Iván Wise. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 109

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But Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise were leaping far off on their swift steeds.

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**Who acts:** Iván Wise · **What happens:** leap

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván Wise), 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:pg62509:30:109
# text = But Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise were leaping far off on their swift steeds.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wise	Wise	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past · progressive | the Iván Wise |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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