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title: “At least leave us your silver snuff-box; we can gaze on it and thin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “At least leave us your silver snuff-box; we can gaze on it and think of you.” Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 110

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“At least leave us your silver snuff-box; we can gaze on it and think of you.”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** leave, gaze, think · **To what, where:** us, least

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg62509:23:110
# text = “At least leave us your silver snuff-box; we can gaze on it and think of you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  | least |  | your silver snuff box *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme box=Attribute |
| 2 | **gaze** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  | on box | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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