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title: “Thank you, Iván Tsarévich: of all the servants I have had, none of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thank you, Iván Tsarévich: of all the servants I have had, none of them have been able to do as well as you. Who acts: Iván, none. 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 68

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“Thank you, Iván Tsarévich: of all the servants I have had, none of them have been able to do as well as you.

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**Who acts:** Iván, none · **What happens:** thank, have, be, do · **To what, where:** you

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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, none), 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:pg62509:30:68
# text = “Thank you, Iván Tsarévich: of all the servants I have had, none of them have been able to do as well as you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
6	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  | Iván *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Iván |  |  |  |  | of all servants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | none of servants |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | none of servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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