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title: Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came and asked: “Where are they taking you, master?” Who acts: same young man, SMITH. 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 126

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Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came and asked: “Where are they taking you, master?”

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**Who acts:** same young man, SMITH · **What happens:** act, come, ask, take · **To what, where:** you · **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 (same young man, SMITH), 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:pg62509:16:126
# text = Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came and asked: “Where are they taking you, master?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | past · perfect | the same young man |  |  |  |  | as a hand; to the smith | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hand=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | the same young man |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the same young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | present · progressive | SMITH |  | you |  |  | master *conj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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