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title: The King’s sons shot up, youths no men could imagine, guess, or draw… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s sons shot up, youths no men could imagine, guess, or draw, or paint; and the Tsarévna was such a beauty! Who acts: sons, Tsarévna. 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 70

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The King’s sons shot up, youths no men could imagine, guess, or draw, or paint; and the Tsarévna was such a beauty!

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**Who acts:** sons, Tsarévna · **What happens:** shoot up, imagine, guess, draw, be · **To what, where:** sons, paint, beauty

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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 (sons, Tsarévna), 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:pg62509:32:70
# text = The King’s sons shot up, youths no men could imagine, guess, or draw, or paint; and the Tsarévna was such a beauty!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | participle |  | the King's sons and youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **imagine** | could | the King's sons and youths |  |  |  |  | no men *nsubj* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **guess** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | infinitive |  | paint |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the Tsarévna | such beauty |  |  |  |  | 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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