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title: “Certainly,” said the peasant—“I shall be only too glad; only, will… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Certainly,” said the peasant—“I shall be only too glad; only, will you go on telling me stories all night long?” Who acts: peasant, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 95

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“Certainly,” said the peasant—“I shall be only too glad; only, will you go on telling me stories all night long?”

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**Who acts:** peasant, you · **What happens:** say, be, go, tell · **To what, where:** stories, peasant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, 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:pg62509:18:95
# text = “Certainly,” said the peasant—“I shall be only too glad; only, will you go on telling me stories all night long?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | stories | the peasant *= peasant* |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=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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