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title: "I'm still very young and foolish," answered Ivashko: "I haven't yet… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "I'm still very young and foolish," answered Ivashko: "I haven't yet quite got my wits about me. Who acts: Ivashko. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 144

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"I'm still very young and foolish," answered Ivashko: "I haven't yet quite got my wits about me.

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**Who acts:** Ivashko · **What happens:** be, answer, not get · **To what, where:** wits · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivashko), 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:pg22373:31:144
# text = "I'm still very young and foolish," answered Ivashko: "I haven't yet quite got my wits about me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ivashko |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Ivashko *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ivashko |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present | Ivashko | my wits |  |  | yet | about Ivashko | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wit=Stimulus |

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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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