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title: All is not well in my garden: somebody is breaking my best-loved tre… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All is not well in my garden: somebody is breaking my best-loved trees, and you must endeavour to preserve them; and, as to the reward for your labour, you shall not fare ill.” Who acts: All, somebody, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 125

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All is not well in my garden: somebody is breaking my best-loved trees, and you must endeavour to preserve them; and, as to the reward for your labour, you shall not fare ill.”

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**Who acts:** All, somebody, you · **What happens:** not be, break, love, endeavour, preserve, not fare · **To what, where:** garden, best loved trees, trees

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, somebody, 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:pg62509:24:125
# text = All is not well in my garden: somebody is breaking my best-loved trees, and you must endeavour to preserve them; and, as to the reward for your labour, you shall not fare ill.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
40	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | All |  |  | my garden |  | my *nmod:poss*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | present · progressive | somebody | my best loved trees |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Patient |
| 3 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **endeavour** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **not** **fare** | shall | you |  |  |  |  | as the reward for your labour; ill *property* | 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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