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description: The Woodsprite had three daughters, and he asked the eldest: “What will you give Iván Tsarévich for saving me out of the iron tower?” Who acts: Woodsprite, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 108

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The Woodsprite had three daughters, and he asked the eldest: “What will you give Iván Tsarévich for saving me out of the iron tower?”

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**Who acts:** Woodsprite, you · **What happens:** have, ask, give, save · **To what, where:** three daughters, Iván, Tsarévich, iron tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite, you), 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:pg62509:17:108
# text = The Woodsprite had three daughters, and he asked the eldest: “What will you give Iván Tsarévich for saving me out of the iron tower?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Woodsprite | three daughters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Woodsprite |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | Iván |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient iván=Theme |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the Tsarévich *= tsarévich* |  | the iron tower |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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