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title: You have sold your goods very finely, potter; you have done very lit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You have sold your goods very finely, potter; you have done very little, and you have won much. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 133

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You have sold your goods very finely, potter; you have done very little, and you have won much.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** sell, do, win · **To what, where:** goods, little

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:22:133
# text = You have sold your goods very finely, potter; you have done very little, and you have won much.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present · perfect | You | your goods |  |  |  | potter *parataxis*; finely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | you | little |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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