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title: Then Alyósha Popóvich said from the brick stove, “O Marýshko, son of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Alyósha Popóvich said from the brick stove, “O Marýshko, son of Parán, thou hast been a faithful servant!” Who acts: Alyósha, thou. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 52

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Then Alyósha Popóvich said from the brick stove, “O Marýshko, son of Parán, thou hast been a faithful servant!”

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, thou · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** brick stove, faithful servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, thou), 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:pg62509:20:52
# text = Then Alyósha Popóvich said from the brick stove, “O Marýshko, son of Parán, thou hast been a faithful servant!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	Marýshko	Marýshko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Parán	Parán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
19	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alyósha |  |  | the brick stove | then | Marýshko *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | a faithful servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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