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title: As soon as the boy saw that peasant, he at once stretched out his li… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the boy saw that peasant, he at once stretched out his little hands and said “_Tyátya, Tyátya! Who acts: boy, Tyátya. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 35

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As soon as the boy saw that peasant, he at once stretched out his little hands and said “\_Tyátya, Tyátya!

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**Who acts:** boy, Tyátya · **What happens:** see, stretch out, say · **To what, where:** boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Tyátya), 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:pg62509:33:35
# text = As soon as the boy saw that peasant, he at once stretched out his little hands and said “_Tyátya, Tyátya!
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Tyátya	Tyátya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Tyátya	Tyátya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | peasant, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stretch out** | participle · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | boy's little hands *obj*; once *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hand=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tyátya and Tyátya |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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