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title: Anna Tsarévna the Fair lived with her God-sent husband as a good wif… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Anna Tsarévna the Fair lived with her God-sent husband as a good wife should, and always listened to his words. Who acts: Anna, husband. 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 84

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Anna Tsarévna the Fair lived with her God-sent husband as a good wife should, and always listened to his words.

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**Who acts:** Anna, husband · **What happens:** live, send, listen, word · **To what, where:** God

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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 (Anna, husband), 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:pg62509:38:85
# text = Anna Tsarévna the Fair lived with her God-sent husband as a good wife should, and always listened to his words.
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Anna |  |  |  |  | with Anna's sent husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to husband's words; always *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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