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title: Go and buy me some of the very best flax; I should like to spin.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and buy me some of the very best flax; I should like to spin.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 34

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Go and buy me some of the very best flax; I should like to spin.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** go, buy, like, spin · **To what, where:** some, me

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg62509:15:34
# text = Go and buy me some of the very best flax; I should like to spin.”
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some of the best flax | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary some=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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