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title: “I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, but then the geese might come to some harm. Who acts: geese. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 83

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“I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, but then the geese might come to some harm.

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**Who acts:** geese · **What happens:** delight, go, come · **To what, where:** Saviour, village feast, harm

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese), 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:pg62509:37:85
# text = “I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, but then the geese might come to some harm.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	delighted	delight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** *in a quote* | should · perfect · passive |  | the Saviour *= saviour* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the village feast |  | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | might | the geese |  |  | some harm | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_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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