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title: And when Alyósha had eaten and drunk he went and sat on the brick st… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Alyósha had eaten and drunk he went and sat on the brick stove to rest from the midday heat, whilst Marýshko sat at the table. Who acts: Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, Marýshko. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 41

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And when Alyósha had eaten and drunk he went and sat on the brick stove to rest from the midday heat, whilst Marýshko sat at the table.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, Marýshko · **What happens:** eat, drink, go, sit, stove, rest · **To what, where:** brick, midday heat, table

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, Marýshko), 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:pg62509:20:41
# text = And when Alyósha had eaten and drunk he went and sat on the brick stove to rest from the midday heat, whilst Marýshko sat at the table.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	stove	stove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Marýshko	Marýshko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | Alyósha |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | participle | Alyósha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* |  |  | the brick |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brick=Location |
| 5 | **stove** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the midday heat |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sit** | past | Marýshko |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |

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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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