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title: They had only to say, “Fool, go and fetch this!” or “Fool, come and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They had only to say, “Fool, go and fetch this!” or “Fool, come and look here!” Who acts: cows. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 109

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They had only to say, “Fool, go and fetch this!” or “Fool, come and look here!”

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**Who acts:** cows · **What happens:** have, say, go, fetch, come, look · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cows), 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:pg62509:5:111
# text = They had only to say, “Fool, go and fetch this!” or “Fool, come and look here!”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Fool *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* | this |  |  |  | Fool *conj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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