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title: “Oh, my darling sisters, let us go into the wood and pick berries an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, my darling sisters, let us go into the wood and pick berries and look for wild strawberries!” Who acts: you, us. 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 127

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“Oh, my darling sisters, let us go into the wood and pick berries and look for wild strawberries!”

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, go, pick, look · **To what, where:** us, wood, berries

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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 (you, us), 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:pg62509:5:129
# text = “Oh, my darling sisters, let us go into the wood and pick berries and look for wild strawberries!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pick** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | berries |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for wild strawberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme |

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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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