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title: And he had only one thought in his mind, how he should make himself… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he had only one thought in his mind, how he should make himself wise and revenge himself on the Tsarévna for her unkind jest. Who acts: youth, revenge. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

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And he had only one thought in his mind, how he should make himself wise and revenge himself on the Tsarévna for her unkind jest.

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**Who acts:** youth, revenge · **What happens:** have, make, mind, jest · **To what, where:** one thought, mind, youth

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, revenge), 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:pg62509:8:19
# text = And he had only one thought in his mind, how he should make himself wise and revenge himself on the Tsarévna for her unkind jest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | youth | one thought |  | youth's mind |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | should | youth | youth |  |  |  | for revenge's unkind jest; the Tsarévna  revenge  youth *conj*; wise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Product for jest=Asset |
| 3 | **mind** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **jest** |  | revenge |  |  |  |  |  | nom jest «communication intransitive»: 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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