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title: “Now, my fair daughter, my little child, tell me at once, why does t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, my fair daughter, my little child, tell me at once, why does the room smell so of Russian bones?” Who acts: fair daughter. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

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“Now, my fair daughter, my little child, tell me at once, why does the room smell so of Russian bones?”

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**Who acts:** fair daughter · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair daughter), 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:pg62509:9:31
# text = “Now, my fair daughter, my little child, tell me at once, why does the room smell so of Russian bones?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	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	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	parataxis	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | my fair daughter and my little child |  | maiden |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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