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title: “Never mind, master, I have three crusts of bread, and meat: give me… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind, master, I have three crusts of bread, and meat: give me a ladle of water. Who acts: you, Hail. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 8

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“Never mind, master, I have three crusts of bread, and meat: give me a ladle of water.

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**Who acts:** you, Hail · **What happens:** not mind, have, give · **To what, where:** master, three crusts, ladle, Hail

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hail), 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:pg62509:35:8
# text = “Never mind, master, I have three crusts of bread, and meat: give me a ladle of water.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	crusts	crust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ladle	ladle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | master |  |  |  | meat *obl* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Hail and master *= hail* | three crusts of bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a ladle of water | Hail and master *= hail* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ladle=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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