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title: Then the Tsarévna saw from her rooms and was very much frightened, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Tsarévna saw from her rooms and was very much frightened, and sent her _boyárs_ and generals to ask for peace. Who acts: Tsarévna. 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 37

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Then the Tsarévna saw from her rooms and was very much frightened, and sent her \_boyárs\_ and generals to ask for peace.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna · **What happens:** see, frighten, send, general, ask · **To what, where:** rooms, princess

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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 (Tsarévna), 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:pg62509:8:37
# text = Then the Tsarévna saw from her rooms and was very much frightened, and sent her _boyárs_ and generals to ask for peace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	generals	general	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Tsarévna |  |  | princess's rooms | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **frighten** | past · passive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **send** | past |  | princess |  |  |  | boyárs *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **general** | present | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for peace | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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