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title: But when he saw the Tsar come to see him, his hands so trembled for… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he saw the Tsar come to see him, his hands so trembled for fear that he rent the twelve hides. Who acts: NIKÍTA, Tsar. 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 29

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But when he saw the Tsar come to see him, his hands so trembled for fear that he rent the twelve hides.

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**Who acts:** NIKÍTA, Tsar · **What happens:** see, come, tremble, rend · **To what, where:** Tsar, NIKÍTA, hands, twelve hides

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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 (NIKÍTA, Tsar), 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:pg62509:32:29
# text = But when he saw the Tsar come to see him, his hands so trembled for fear that he rent the twelve hides.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tremble** | participle · passive |  | NIKÍTA's hands |  |  |  | for fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **rend** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | the twelve hides |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |

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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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