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title: Then she took the little coffer out of her father’s hands, took out… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took the little coffer out of her father’s hands, took out the apple and the saucer, and herself asked the Tsar, “What do you want to see, O Tsar my Emperor? Who acts: Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 27

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Then she took the little coffer out of her father’s hands, took out the apple and the saucer, and herself asked the Tsar, “What do you want to see, O Tsar my Emperor?

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** take, take out, ask, want, see · **To what, where:** little coffer, hands, apple, Tsar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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:pg62509:6:27
# text = Then she took the little coffer out of her father’s hands, took out the apple and the saucer, and herself asked the Tsar, “What do you want to see, O Tsar my Emperor?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coffer	coffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	37	case	_	_
37	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Tsar | the little coffer |  | Tsar's father's hands | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take out** | past | Tsar *not said here* | the apple and the saucer |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tsar |  | the Tsar |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Tsar *= tsar* |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tsar *= tsar* *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  | my Emperor *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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