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title: “Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and p… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see.” Who acts: you. 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 8

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“Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, collect, put, ensue, see · **To what, where:** village, one little egg, house, brood hen

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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 (you), 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:pg62509:7:8
# text = “Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ensue	ensue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	nsubj	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the village |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **collect** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | one little egg |  | every house |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from house=Source |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a brood hen |  |  |  | over children *= child* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme over they=Destination |
| 4 | **ensue** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | yourself *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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