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title: So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went whither his eyes migh… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went whither his eyes might go, and he went and wept. Who acts: Alyósha, eyes. 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 89

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So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went whither his eyes might go, and he went and wept.

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, eyes · **What happens:** go, weep

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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, eyes), 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:pg62509:4:89
# text = So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went whither his eyes might go, and he went and wept.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | might | Alyósha's eyes |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Alyósha |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Alyósha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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