---
title: When Anna Tsarévna saw this she cried out aloud, “What is that wretc… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Anna Tsarévna saw this she cried out aloud, “What is that wretched herdsman doing? Who acts: Anna, wretched herdsman. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/60/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/) / 60

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 60

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When Anna Tsarévna saw this she cried out aloud, “What is that wretched herdsman doing?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Anna, wretched herdsman · **What happens:** see, cry out, be, do · **To what, where:** this, wretched herdsman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna, wretched herdsman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:39:60
# text = When Anna Tsarévna saw this she cried out aloud, “What is that wretched herdsman doing?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Anna | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Anna |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that wretched herdsman |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | that wretched herdsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/59/)
- next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/61/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/)