--- title: "Hold your tongue, naughty child! you're talking nonsense!" cried th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Hold your tongue, naughty child! you're talking nonsense!" cried the old crone's daughter; then she fetched a big cauldron, filled it with cold water, put it on the stove, and heated it till it boiled furiously. Who acts: you, daughter, Mammy, child. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Col --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/39/) [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/) / 39 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 39 "Hold your tongue, naughty child! you're talking nonsense!" cried the old crone's daughter; then she fetched a big cauldron, filled it with cold water, put it on the stove, and heated it till it boiled furiously. **Who acts:** you, daughter, Mammy, child · **What happens:** hold, talk, cry, fetch, fill, put · **To what, where:** tongue, nonsense, big cauldron, cauldron, stove · **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, daughter, Mammy, child), 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:pg22373:13:39 # text = "Hold your tongue, naughty child! you're talking nonsense!" cried the old crone's daughter; then she fetched a big cauldron, filled it with cold water, put it on the stove, and heated it till it boiled furiously. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 12 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 15 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 crone crone NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cauldron cauldron NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 heated heat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 till till SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 47 furiously furiously ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your tongue and naughty child | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | nonsense | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the old crone's daughter | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **fetch** | past | Mammy | a big cauldron | | | then | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme | | 5 | **fill** | past | Mammy *not said here* | cauldron | | | | with cold water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | | 6 | **put** | infinitive | Mammy *not said here* | cauldron | | the stove | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stove=Destination | | 7 | **heat** | past | the old crone's daughter *not said here* | cauldron | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **boil** | past | child | | | | | furiously *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/40/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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