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title: “Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a desser… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a dessert.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

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“Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a dessert.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, eat up, leave · **To what, where:** us, wafers, biscuits

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg62509:12:16
# text = “Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a dessert.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wafers	wafer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **eat up** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | my wafers |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wafer=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your biscuits |  |  |  | for a dessert | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme for dessert=Recipient |

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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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