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title: The little skiff sailed far and far away and Iváshechko started fish… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little skiff sailed far and far away and Iváshechko started fishing. Who acts: little skiff, 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 108

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The little skiff sailed far and far away and Iváshechko started fishing.

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**Who acts:** little skiff, Iváshechko · **What happens:** sail, start · **To what, where:** fishing

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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 (little skiff, 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:pg62509:36:108
# text = The little skiff sailed far and far away and Iváshechko started fishing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	skiff	skiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the little skiff |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | past | Iváshechko | fishing |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Eventuality |

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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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