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title: The Tsar one day had to leave home, and in his absence a disaster be… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsar one day had to leave home, and in his absence a disaster befell them; the Tsarévich disappeared. Who acts: Tsar day, disaster, Tsarévich, Tsarítsa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 52

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The Tsar one day had to leave home, and in his absence a disaster befell them; the Tsarévich disappeared.

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**Who acts:** Tsar day, disaster, Tsarévich, Tsarítsa · **What happens:** have, leave, befall, disappear, absent · **To what, where:** people, absence

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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 day, disaster, Tsarévich, Tsarítsa), 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:pg62509:6:52
# text = The Tsar one day had to leave home, and in his absence a disaster befell them; the Tsarévich disappeared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Tsar day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the Tsar day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **befall** | past | a disaster | people |  | Tsarítsa's absence |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the Tsarévich |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **absent** |  | Tsarítsa |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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