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title: Then the Tsarévna’s father swore by everything holy that as to thiev… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Tsarévna’s father swore by everything holy that as to thieving there had never been such an idea in his head. Who acts: father, that. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 100

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Then the Tsarévna’s father swore by everything holy that as to thieving there had never been such an idea in his head.

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**Who acts:** father, that · **What happens:** swear, thieve, have, not be · **To what, where:** idea, head

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that), 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:pg62509:33:100
# text = Then the Tsarévna’s father swore by everything holy that as to thieving there had never been such an idea in his head.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	thieving	thieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | the Tsarévna's father |  |  |  | then | by everything; holy *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thieve** | gerund | that |  |  | there |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | participle |  | such idea |  | father's head |  |  | 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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