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description: let twelve ducks and one drake swim on the pond, and let them have one feather of gold and another of silver, and let the drake have a diamond tuft on his forehead!” Who acts: you, one drake, ducks, drake. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 60

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let twelve ducks and one drake swim on the pond, and let them have one feather of gold and another of silver, and let the drake have a diamond tuft on his forehead!”

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**Who acts:** you, one drake, ducks, drake · **What happens:** let, swim, have · **To what, where:** twelve ducks, pond, ducks, one feather, diamond tuft, forehead

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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 (you, one drake, ducks, drake), 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:pg62509:33:60
# text = let twelve ducks and one drake swim on the pond, and let them have one feather of gold and another of silver, and let the drake have a diamond tuft on his forehead!”
1	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | twelve ducks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | present | one drake |  |  | the pond |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ducks *= duck* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | ducks *= duck* *not said here* | one feather of gold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | the drake | a diamond tuft |  | drake's forehead |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Patient |

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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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