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title: Then all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, Kings and Korolévichi cried out f… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, Kings and Korolévichi cried out fiercely, “Ho! ho! ho! what a deed! are Tsars turning into thieves?” Who acts: Tsars. 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 99

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Then all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, Kings and Korolévichi cried out fiercely, “Ho! ho! ho! what a deed! are Tsars turning into thieves?”

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**Who acts:** Tsars · **What happens:** cry out, be, turn · **To what, where:** ho ho, Tsars, thieves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsars), 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:pg62509:33:99
# text = Then all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, Kings and Korolévichi cried out fiercely, “Ho! ho! ho! what a deed! are Tsars turning into thieves?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Tsars	tsar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Tsarévichi	Tsarévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Kings	Kings	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Korolévichi	Korolévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	Tsars	tsar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
28	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and Korolévichi | ho ho |  |  | then | what  a deed *parataxis*; fiercely *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Tsars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund | Tsars *not said here* |  |  | thieves |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thief=Trajectory |

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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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