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title: Select whom you will,” said the King, and he led the _guslyár_ into… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Select whom you will,” said the King, and he led the _guslyár_ into the prison. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 32

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Select whom you will,” said the King, and he led the \_guslyár\_ into the prison.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** select, say, lead · **To what, where:** guslyár, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg62509:10:32
# text = Select whom you will,” said the King, and he led the _guslyár_ into the prison.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	guslyár	guslyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lead** *in a quote* | past | King | the guslyár |  | the prison |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guslyár=Theme into prison=Destination |

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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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