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title: Fílyushka had all his own will and way: his grandfather was old, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fílyushka had all his own will and way: his grandfather was old, and a great stupid; and Fílyushka was generous. Who acts: Fílyushka, grandfather. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 122

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Fílyushka had all his own will and way: his grandfather was old, and a great stupid; and Fílyushka was generous.

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**Who acts:** Fílyushka, grandfather · **What happens:** have, be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fílyushka, grandfather), 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:pg62509:27:122
# text = Fílyushka had all his own will and way: his grandfather was old, and a great stupid; and Fílyushka was generous.
1	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Fílyushka |  |  |  |  | way *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Fílyushka's grandfather |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Fílyushka's grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fílyushka |  |  |  |  | generous *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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