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title: The Tsarévna saw what a monstrous animal had been painted, with tang… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarévna saw what a monstrous animal had been painted, with tangled hair, uncut nails and unwiped nose. Who acts: Tsarévna. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 35

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The Tsarévna saw what a monstrous animal had been painted, with tangled hair, uncut nails and unwiped nose.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna · **What happens:** see, paint, tangle · **To what, where:** monstrous animal

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. 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:pg62509:37:35
# text = The Tsarévna saw what a monstrous animal had been painted, with tangled hair, uncut nails and unwiped nose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	uncut	uncut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	unwiped	unwiped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Tsarévna |  |  |  |  | with tangled hair and uncut nails and unwiped nose; what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **paint** | past · perfect · passive |  | a monstrous animal |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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