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title: And they asked him, “Have you ever seen such a fearful stir?” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they asked him, “Have you ever seen such a fearful stir?” Who acts: bladders, soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 11

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And they asked him, “Have you ever seen such a fearful stir?”

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**Who acts:** bladders, soldier · **What happens:** ask, see · **To what, where:** soldier, fearful stir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bladders, soldier), 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:pg62509:3:11
# text = And they asked him, “Have you ever seen such a fearful stir?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | bladders *= bladder* |  | soldier |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | soldier | such fearful stir |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stir=Stimulus |

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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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