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title: Iván Tsarévich answered: “I have come from my distant realm in order… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván Tsarévich answered: “I have come from my distant realm in order to woo Anna Tsarévna the Fair.” Who acts: Iván. 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 29

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Iván Tsarévich answered: “I have come from my distant realm in order to woo Anna Tsarévna the Fair.”

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** answer, come, woo · **To what, where:** distant realm, Anna · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Iván), 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:pg62509:38:30
# text = Iván Tsarévich answered: “I have come from my distant realm in order to woo Anna Tsarévna the Fair.”
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Iván |  |  | my distant realm in order |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from realm=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **woo** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | Anna |  |  |  | the Fair *obj* | 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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