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title: But Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, dressed himself as a sorr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, dressed himself as a sorry beggar and asked for holy alms. Who acts: Alyósha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 80

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But Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, dressed himself as a sorry beggar and asked for holy alms.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha · **What happens:** dress, ask · **To what, where:** Alyósha

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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 (Alyósha), 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:pg62509:4:80
# text = But Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, dressed himself as a sorry beggar and asked for holy alms.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Mocker	Mocker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women | Alyósha |  |  |  | as a sorry beggar | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for holy alms | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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