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title: “What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, and that would be a fine story.” Who acts: you, that. 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 102

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“What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, and that would be a fine story.”

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** nonsense, be, drown · **To what, where:** little, you, fine story

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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 (you, that), 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:pg62509:36:102
# text = “What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, and that would be a fine story.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nonsense** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | little |  |  | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** *in a quote* | might · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | that | a fine story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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