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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 217

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Now, stand up, we'll say a prayer before the Holy Pictures; then give each other a kiss, and go in Heaven's name and get married at once!"

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**Who acts:** you, we, Heaven · **What happens:** stand up, say, give, go, marry, name · **To what, where:** prayer, each, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, Heaven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:12:217
# text = Now, stand up, we'll say a prayer before the Holy Pictures; then give each other a kiss, and go in Heaven's name and get married at once!"
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Pictures	Picture	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	17	obj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | we | a prayer |  |  | before the Holy Pictures |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | each |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | Heaven's name |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location |
| 5 | **marry** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **name** |  | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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