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title: Then Fílyushka climbed up on to the roof, and saw some geese flying,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Fílyushka climbed up on to the roof, and saw some geese flying, and called out to them, “Lend me your wings; I want wings to carry me home.” Who acts: Fílyushka, geese, wings. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 11

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Then Fílyushka climbed up on to the roof, and saw some geese flying, and called out to them, “Lend me your wings; I want wings to carry me home.”

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**Who acts:** Fílyushka, geese, wings · **What happens:** climb up, see, fly, call out, lend, want · **To what, where:** roof, geese, wings, Fílyushka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fílyushka, geese, wings), 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:pg62509:28:11
# text = Then Fílyushka climbed up on to the roof, and saw some geese flying, and called out to them, “Lend me your wings; I want wings to carry me home.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	home	home	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | Fílyushka |  |  | the roof | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | Fílyushka *not said here* | some geese |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | some geese *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | Fílyushka *not said here* |  | geese *= goose* |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 5 | **lend** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fílyushka *not said here* | your wings | Fílyushka |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wing=Theme |
| 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Fílyushka | wings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **carry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | wings *not said here* | Fílyushka |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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