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title: Then Zamorýshek went to the smith and asked for a chain big enough t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Zamorýshek went to the smith and asked for a chain big enough to cover a man from head to foot. Who acts: Zamorýshek. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 26

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Then Zamorýshek went to the smith and asked for a chain big enough to cover a man from head to foot.

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**Who acts:** Zamorýshek · **What happens:** go, ask, cover · **To what, where:** smith, man, head

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zamorýshek), 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:pg62509:7:26
# text = Then Zamorýshek went to the smith and asked for a chain big enough to cover a man from head to foot.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Zamorýshek	Zamorýshek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Zamorýshek |  |  | the smith | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to smith=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Zamorýshek *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a chain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Zamorýshek *not said here* |  | a man | head |  | to foot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Destination |

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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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