--- title: "Listen, old man," says the pope, "From me thou will not escape, alt… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Listen, old man," says the pope, "From me thou will not escape, although thou may'st pray, although thou may'st cross thyself; much better give me back my pot of money, otherwise I will make thee pay for it. Who acts: pope, thou, thee. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/) / 134 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 134 "Listen, old man," says the pope, "From me thou will not escape, although thou may'st pray, although thou may'st cross thyself; much better give me back my pot of money, otherwise I will make thee pay for it. **Who acts:** pope, thou, thee · **What happens:** listen, say, not escape, pray, give back, make · **To what, where:** old man, pot, pope, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope, thou, thee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:13:134 # text = "Listen, old man," says the pope, "From me thou will not escape, although thou may'st pray, although thou may'st cross thyself; much better give me back my pot of money, otherwise I will make thee pay for it. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pope pope NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 From from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 although although SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may'st may'st NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 although although SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 27 may'st may' ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 advmod _ _ 28 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 29 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 much much ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 csubj _ _ 33 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 back back ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 45 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 obj _ _ 46 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | | old man | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the pope | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **escape** *in a quote* | future | thou | | | | | from the pope *= pope* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **give back** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my pot of money | the pope *= pope* | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pot=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the pope *= pope* | thee | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | thee *not said here* | | | | | for may'st | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/135/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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