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title: When there are geese flying over Russia, will you pluck a feather ou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When there are geese flying over Russia, will you pluck a feather out of them or let them fly by in peace?” Who acts: geese, 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 84

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When there are geese flying over Russia, will you pluck a feather out of them or let them fly by in peace?”

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**Who acts:** geese, you · **What happens:** be, fly, pluck, let · **To what, where:** Russia, feather, geese

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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 (geese, 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:pg62509:22:84
# text = When there are geese flying over Russia, will you pluck a feather out of them or let them fly by in peace?”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | geese |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | geese *not said here* |  |  | Russia |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over russia=Location |
| 3 | **pluck** | future | you | a feather |  |  |  | out geese *= goose* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out they=Source |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | geese *= goose* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | infinitive | geese *= goose* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by peace | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by peace=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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