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title: When the knights Alyósha Popóvich and Dobrýnya Nikítich heard this,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the knights Alyósha Popóvich and Dobrýnya Nikítich heard this, they dashed out to look, and assured the Prince that this was really so. Who acts: knights, Alyósha, this. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 101

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When the knights Alyósha Popóvich and Dobrýnya Nikítich heard this, they dashed out to look, and assured the Prince that this was really so.

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**Who acts:** knights, Alyósha, this · **What happens:** hear, dash out, look, assure, be · **To what, where:** this, Prince

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, Alyósha, this), 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:pg62509:31:101
# text = When the knights Alyósha Popóvich and Dobrýnya Nikítich heard this, they dashed out to look, and assured the Prince that this was really so.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Dobrýnya	Dobrýnya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	Nikítich	Nikítich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the knights | this |  |  |  | Alyósha and Dobrýnya *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dash out** | past | Alyósha |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Alyósha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **assure** | past | Alyósha *not said here* |  | the Prince |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |

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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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