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title: One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and catch fish?” Who acts: Iváshechko. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 101

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One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and catch fish?”

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**Who acts:** Iváshechko · **What happens:** ask, go, catch · **To what, where:** mother, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iváshechko), 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:pg62509:36:101
# text = One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and catch fish?”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | Iváshechko |  | Iváshechko's mother and father |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | may | Iváshechko |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Iváshechko *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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