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title: “Yes, Tsarévich, it will be hard for you; if you had to go there by… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, Tsarévich, it will be hard for you; if you had to go there by yourself, you would never win her. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 17

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“Yes, Tsarévich, it will be hard for you; if you had to go there by yourself, you would never win her.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, have, go, not win · **To what, where:** Anna

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg62509:38:18
# text = “Yes, Tsarévich, it will be hard for you; if you had to go there by yourself, you would never win her.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | for you; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  | by yourself | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by yourself=Location |
| 4 | **not** **win** *in a quote* | would | you | Anna |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |

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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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