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title: You must have gone utterly mad: our children are sitting down at hom… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You must have gone utterly mad: our children are sitting down at home without any bread, and you buy a hen which you must feed!” Who acts: You, children, hen. 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 88

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You must have gone utterly mad: our children are sitting down at home without any bread, and you buy a hen which you must feed!”

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**Who acts:** You, children, hen · **What happens:** go, sit down, buy, feed · **To what, where:** home, 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, children, hen), 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:pg62509:7:88
# text = You must have gone utterly mad: our children are sitting down at home without any bread, and you buy a hen which you must feed!”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | must · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | present · progressive | our children |  |  | home |  | without any bread; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |
| 3 | **buy** | present | you | a hen |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme |
| 4 | **feed** | must | a hen |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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