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title: Then the Tsarévna wept and swore in every way that she had been guil… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Tsarévna wept and swore in every way that she had been guilty with nobody. Who acts: Tsarévna. 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 25

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Then the Tsarévna wept and swore in every way that she had been guilty with nobody.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna · **What happens:** weep, swear, be · **To what, where:** way

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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 (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:pg62509:33:25
# text = Then the Tsarévna wept and swore in every way that she had been guilty with nobody.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the Tsarévna |  |  |  | then |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swear** | past | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  | every way |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Tsarévna | every way *not said here* |  |  |  | with nobody; guilty *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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