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title: But suddenly, whilst she was rolling, she said, “My dear daughter, d… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But suddenly, whilst she was rolling, she said, “My dear daughter, do come to me and help me roll Fílyushka’s little bones!” Who acts: Búra, dear daughter. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 6

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But suddenly, whilst she was rolling, she said, “My dear daughter, do come to me and help me roll Fílyushka’s little bones!”

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**Who acts:** Búra, dear daughter · **What happens:** roll, say, come, help · **To what, where:** Búra, little bones · **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 (Búra, dear daughter), 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:pg62509:28:6
# text = But suddenly, whilst she was rolling, she said, “My dear daughter, do come to me and help me roll Fílyushka’s little bones!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past · progressive | Búra |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Búra |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | My dear daughter |  | Búra |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | My dear daughter *not said here* | Búra |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** *in a quote* | infinitive | Búra *not said here* | Fílyushka's little bones |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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