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title: So the Tsar told the peasant, “Tell your foundling that he is to com… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tsar told the peasant, “Tell your foundling that he is to come to me neither naked nor dressed, nor on foot nor on horseback, neither by day nor by night, neither in the courtyard nor in the street.” Who acts: Tsar, peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

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So the Tsar told the peasant, “Tell your foundling that he is to come to me neither naked nor dressed, nor on foot nor on horseback, neither by day nor by night, neither in the courtyard nor in the street.”

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**Who acts:** Tsar, peasant · **What happens:** tell, be, dress · **To what, where:** peasant, foundling, 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, peasant), 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:pg62509:6:58
# text = So the Tsar told the peasant, “Tell your foundling that he is to come to me neither naked nor dressed, nor on foot nor on horseback, neither by day nor by night, neither in the courtyard nor in the street.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	foundling	foundling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc:preconj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	41	cc:preconj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Tsar |  | the peasant |  | day | the courtyard nor the street *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | your foundling |  |  |  | foot nor horseback *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | peasant |  | the Tsar *= tsar* |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dress** *in a quote* | participle | peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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