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title: So the Tsarévna at once wrote to her father: “Look for Nikíta, the t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tsarévna at once wrote to her father: “Look for Nikíta, the tanner at Kíev, and send him on to me to deliver me from my imprisonment.” Who acts: Tsarévna, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 25

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So the Tsarévna at once wrote to her father: “Look for Nikíta, the tanner at Kíev, and send him on to me to deliver me from my imprisonment.”

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna, my · **What happens:** write, look, send on, deliver, imprison · **To what, where:** father, NIKÍTA, Kíev, imprisonment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, my), 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:pg62509:32:25
# text = So the Tsarévna at once wrote to her father: “Look for Nikíta, the tanner at Kíev, and send him on to me to deliver me from my imprisonment.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | the Tsarévna |  | Tsarévna's father |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Nikíta | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nikíta=Theme |
| 3 | **send on** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | Kíev |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination |
| 4 | **deliver** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* | Kíev |  | my imprisonment |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from imprisonment=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **imprison** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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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