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title: And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out fo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out for yourselves, however could one get a golden stirrup out of a grey-haired peasant? Who acts: peasant, Lords Justices, one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

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And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out for yourselves, however could one get a golden stirrup out of a grey-haired peasant?

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**Who acts:** peasant, Lords Justices, one · **What happens:** answer, think out, get · **To what, where:** peasant, golden stirrup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, Lords Justices, one), 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:pg62509:4:15
# text = And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out for yourselves, however could one get a golden stirrup out of a grey-haired peasant?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Lords	Lord	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	Justices	justice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think out** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | My Lords Justices | peasant |  |  |  | for yourselves; you *nsubj* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | could | one | a golden stirrup |  |  |  | out a haired peasant; however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stirrup=Stimulus |

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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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