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INTRODUCTORY, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/) / 135 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 135 See now, I pitied thee in thy misfortune, and I showed thee the treasure, thinking thou wouldst take a little of it to pay for the funeral, but thou hast pillaged it utterly." **Who acts:** you, I, thou · **What happens:** see, pity, show, think, take, pay · **To what, where:** thee, misfortune, treasure, little, thou · **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 (you, I, thou), 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:pg22373:13:135 # text = See now, I pitied thee in thy misfortune, and I showed thee the treasure, thinking thou wouldst take a little of it to pay for the funeral, but thou hast pillaged it utterly." 1 See see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pitied pity VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 iobj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 wouldst would AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 little little NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 pillaged pillage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **pity** | past | I | thee | | thy misfortune | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | past | I | the treasure | thee | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient treasure=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **take** | would | thou | a little of little | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | for the funeral | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for funeral=Theme | | 7 | **pillage** | present · perfect · passive | | thou | | | | utterly *property* | tree rules | 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/136/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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