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title: _ The Russian folk-tale expression for asking for the moon. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The Russian folk-tale expression for asking for the moon. Who acts: Russian tale expression. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 45

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\_ The Russian folk-tale expression for asking for the moon.

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**Who acts:** Russian tale expression · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Russian tale expression

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian tale expression), 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:pg62509:41:45
# text = _ The Russian folk-tale expression for asking for the moon.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Russian tale expression *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the moon | 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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