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title: “I’m too young and stupid,” Iváshechko answered; “show me how to sit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’m too young and stupid,” Iváshechko answered; “show me how to sit on the shovel.” Who acts: Iváshechko, Alyónka. 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 140

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“I’m too young and stupid,” Iváshechko answered; “show me how to sit on the shovel.”

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**Who acts:** Iváshechko, Alyónka · **What happens:** be, answer, show, sit · **To what, where:** Alyónka, shovel · **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, Alyónka), 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:pg62509:36:140
# text = “I’m too young and stupid,” Iváshechko answered; “show me how to sit on the shovel.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Iváshechko |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Iváshechko |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alyónka *not said here* |  | Alyónka |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the shovel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=Location |

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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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