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title: I shall go in a carriage to church, and you will have a fine prancin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall go in a carriage to church, and you will have a fine prancing steed given you. Who acts: I, you, fine prancing steed. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 49

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I shall go in a carriage to church, and you will have a fine prancing steed given you.

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**Who acts:** I, you, fine prancing steed · **What happens:** go, have, give · **To what, where:** carriage, fine prancing steed, you

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, fine prancing steed), 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:pg62509:38:50
# text = I shall go in a carriage to church, and you will have a fine prancing steed given you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	prancing	prancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  | a carriage |  | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | future | you | a fine prancing steed |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | participle | a fine prancing steed *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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