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title: Iváshechko repeated: “Dance and prance! you have eaten Alyónka’s fle… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iváshechko repeated: “Dance and prance! you have eaten Alyónka’s flesh!” Who acts: Iváshechko, you. 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 149

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Iváshechko repeated: “Dance and prance! you have eaten Alyónka’s flesh!”

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**Who acts:** Iváshechko, you · **What happens:** repeat, eat · **To what, where:** Dance, flesh

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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, you), 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:pg62509:36:149
# text = Iváshechko repeated: “Dance and prance! you have eaten Alyónka’s flesh!”
1	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	prance	prance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	Alyónka	Alyónka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Iváshechko | Dance and prance |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | Alyónka's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |

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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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