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title: The Tsarévna with her husband received her guests with honour, and t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarévna with her husband received her guests with honour, and they began to celebrate banquets and to be joyous. Who acts: Tsarévna, guests. 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 85

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The Tsarévna with her husband received her guests with honour, and they began to celebrate banquets and to be joyous.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna, guests · **What happens:** receive, begin, celebrate, be · **To what, where:** guests, banquets

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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, guests), 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:pg62509:33:85
# text = The Tsarévna with her husband received her guests with honour, and they began to celebrate banquets and to be joyous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	banquets	banquet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **receive** | past | the Tsarévna with Tsarévna's husband | Tsarévna's guests |  |  |  | with honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | guests *= guest* *not said here* | banquets |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | guests *= guest* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | joyous *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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