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title: And the Tsarévna went into the carriage and was waiting to see what… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Tsarévna went into the carriage and was waiting to see what would happen to Iván Tsarévich. Who acts: Tsarévna. 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 71

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And the Tsarévna went into the carriage and was waiting to see what would happen to Iván Tsarévich.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna · **What happens:** go, wait, see, happen · **To what, where:** carriage, Iván · **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 (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:pg62509:38:72
# text = And the Tsarévna went into the carriage and was waiting to see what would happen to Iván Tsarévich.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Tsarévna |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into carriage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | would |  |  | Iván |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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