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title: "Ah, brother mine! do help me a bit in my trouble. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, brother mine! do help me a bit in my trouble. Who acts: fish, my. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 158

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"Ah, brother mine! do help me a bit in my trouble.

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**Who acts:** fish, my · **What happens:** help, trouble · **To what, where:** fish, trouble

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, my), 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:pg22373:35:158
# text = "Ah, brother mine! do help me a bit in my trouble.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	dislocated	_	_
5	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | fish |  | fish | my trouble |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **trouble** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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 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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