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title: But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little tiny bit out of the cow!” Who acts: Márya. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 23

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But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little tiny bit out of the cow!”

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**Who acts:** Márya · **What happens:** ask, give · **To what, where:** him, little tiny bit, Márya, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya), 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:pg62509:2:23
# text = But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little tiny bit out of the cow!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obl	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 | Márya |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  | a little tiny bit | Márya | least |  | out the cow; Father *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at least=Asset |

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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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