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title: She called the smith: “Smith, smith, make me two more iron teeth, or… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She called the smith: “Smith, smith, make me two more iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.” Who acts: WOMAN. 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 156

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She called the smith: “Smith, smith, make me two more iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”

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**Who acts:** WOMAN · **What happens:** call, make, eat up · **To what, where:** smith, two more iron teeth, WOMAN, you · **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 (WOMAN), 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:pg62509:36:156
# text = She called the smith: “Smith, smith, make me two more iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | WOMAN | the smith |  |  |  | Smith and smith *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smith=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | WOMAN *not said here* | two more iron teeth | WOMAN |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product |
| 3 | **eat up** *in a quote* | future | WOMAN | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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