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title: “This is the chase, that is the steeds,” said Vasilísa the Wise; and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is the chase, that is the steeds,” said Vasilísa the Wise; and she turned herself into a church, and Iván Tsarévich into an elderly pope and the horses into trees. Who acts: This, chase, steeds, Vasilísa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its depende
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 112

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“This is the chase, that is the steeds,” said Vasilísa the Wise; and she turned herself into a church, and Iván Tsarévich into an elderly pope and the horses into trees.

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**Who acts:** This, chase, steeds, Vasilísa · **What happens:** be, say, turn · **To what, where:** chase, steeds, Vasilísa, church · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, chase, steeds, Vasilísa), 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:pg62509:30:112
# text = “This is the chase, that is the steeds,” said Vasilísa the Wise; and she turned herself into a church, and Iván Tsarévich into an elderly pope and the horses into trees.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the chase |  |  |  | that *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the chase | the steeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the steeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | Vasilísa | Vasilísa |  | a church |  | into trees; Iván Tsarévich into a elderly pope and the horses *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into church=Source into tree=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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