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title: What enormous strength!” all the people said as Iván Tsarévich paced… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What enormous strength!” all the people said as Iván Tsarévich paced by. Who acts: people. 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 78

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What enormous strength!” all the people said as Iván Tsarévich paced by.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** strength, say, pace · **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 (people), 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:pg62509:38:79
# text = What enormous strength!” all the people said as Iván Tsarévich paced by.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	paced	pace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strength** |  |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | all people |  |  |  |  | as Iván Tsarévich | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pace** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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