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title: Well, after all, the Fool was his daughter, and her father felt sorr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, after all, the Fool was his daughter, and her father felt sorry for her, so he asked her, “What would you like to have, Fool?” Who acts: Fool, father, other. 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 114

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Well, after all, the Fool was his daughter, and her father felt sorry for her, so he asked her, “What would you like to have, Fool?”

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**Who acts:** Fool, father, other · **What happens:** be, feel, ask, like, have, fool · **To what, where:** daughter, other · **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 (Fool, father, other), 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:pg62509:5:116
# text = Well, after all, the Fool was his daughter, and her father felt sorry for her, so he asked her, “What would you like to have, Fool?”
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fool	Fool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Fool | Fool's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | other's father |  |  |  |  | for other; sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Fool |  | other |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **like** *in a quote* | would | other |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fool** *in a quote* | infinitive | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: 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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