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title: "My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; p… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; please let him take a snack with us." Who acts: Father, old fellow, fellow. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 80

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"My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; please let him take a snack with us."

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**Who acts:** Father, old fellow, fellow · **What happens:** beg, be, let, take · **To what, where:** Prince, fellow, snack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, old fellow, fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:27:80
# text = "My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; please let him take a snack with us."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | My Father |  | the Prince |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a old fellow of mine |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | My Father *not said here* | fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | fellow *not said here* | a snack |  |  |  | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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