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title: Oh, it was a fine sight, and the smith so grew to love him, and was… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, it was a fine sight, and the smith so grew to love him, and was so content with him—I cannot tell you how much! Who acts: apprentice, fine sight, I. 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 68

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Oh, it was a fine sight, and the smith so grew to love him, and was so content with him—I cannot tell you how much!

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**Who acts:** apprentice, fine sight, I · **What happens:** be, grow, love, not tell · **To what, where:** fine sight, master, much, 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 (apprentice, fine sight, 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:pg62509:16:68
# text = Oh, it was a fine sight, and the smith so grew to love him, and was so content with him—I cannot tell you how much!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | apprentice | a fine sight and the smith |  |  |  | the smith *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a fine sight and the smith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive | a fine sight and the smith *not said here* | master |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | a fine sight and the smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with master; content *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I | much | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient much=Topic |

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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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