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title: But Fílyushka was a real boy, and the first chance he got, off he wa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Fílyushka was a real boy, and the first chance he got, off he was again to the apple-tree, clambered up. Who acts: Fílyushka, first chance. 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 143

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But Fílyushka was a real boy, and the first chance he got, off he was again to the apple-tree, clambered up.

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**Who acts:** Fílyushka, first chance · **What happens:** be, get, clamber up · **To what, where:** real boy, apple tree

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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, first chance), 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:pg62509:27:143
# text = But Fílyushka was a real boy, and the first chance he got, off he was again to the apple-tree, clambered up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fílyushka | a real boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | the first chance |  |  |  |  | Fílyushka *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Fílyushka |  |  |  | again | off the apple tree | tree rules |
| 4 | **clamber up** | participle |  | the apple tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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