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title: So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady, and thought: “Well, I don’t mind! Who acts: master, man. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 112

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So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady, and thought: “Well, I don’t mind!

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**Who acts:** master, man · **What happens:** ask, do, think, not mind · **To what, where:** coachman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, man), 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:pg62509:16:112
# text = So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady, and thought: “Well, I don’t mind!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | master | the coachman |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coachman=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | master's man | the coachman |  |  |  | with the lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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