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title: The Squirrel also sang Ee, ee, ee! — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Squirrel also sang Ee, ee, ee! Who acts: Squirrel. 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 86

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The Squirrel also sang Ee, ee, ee!

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**Who acts:** Squirrel · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** Ee

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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 (Squirrel), 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:pg62509:15:86
# text = The Squirrel also sang Ee, ee, ee!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Ee	Ee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Squirrel | Ee |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ee=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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