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title: “Oh, confound Alyónka; she must have gone out to play.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, confound Alyónka; she must have gone out to play.” Who acts: you, 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 143

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“Oh, confound Alyónka; she must have gone out to play.”

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**Who acts:** you, Alyónka · **What happens:** confound, go out, play · **To what, where:** Alyónka

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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, 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:pg62509:36:143
# text = “Oh, confound Alyónka; she must have gone out to play.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	confound	confound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Alyónka	Alyónka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confound** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Alyónka |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus alyónka=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | must · perfect | Alyónka |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alyónka *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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