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title: But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling, terribly inferior to the others. Who acts: brother. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 30

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But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling, terribly inferior to the others.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** grow, be, fledge

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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:pg22373:45:30
# text = But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling, terribly inferior to the others.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	fledged	fledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | like a grown lad or a fledged duckling | tree rules |
| 3 | **fledge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the others; terribly *property* | tree rules |

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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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