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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 11

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The merchant took a barrel, counted out fifty thousand roubles, wrote the Tartar a note, placed it, together with the money, in the barrel, and then flung the barrel into the water, saying to himself: "As I gave the cross as my surety to the Tartar, the money will be certain to reach him."

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**Who acts:** merchant, barrel, storm, money · **What happens:** take, count out, write, place, fling, say · **To what, where:** barrel, thousand roubles, note, Tartar, water, merchant · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, barrel, storm, money), 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:pg22373:14:11
# text = The merchant took a barrel, counted out fifty thousand roubles, wrote the Tartar a note, placed it, together with the money, in the barrel, and then flung the barrel into the water, saying to himself: "As I gave the cross as my surety to the Tartar, the money will be certain to reach him."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
59	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	cop	_	_
61	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	csubj	_	_
64	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the merchant | a barrel |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **count out** | participle | a barrel *not said here* | thousand roubles |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | past | the merchant *not said here* | a note | the Tartar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tartar=Recipient note=Topic |
| 4 | **place** | past | the merchant *not said here* | note |  | the barrel |  | with the money; together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in barrel=Destination |
| 5 | **fling** | past | the merchant *not said here* | the barrel |  | the water | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme into water=Destination |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the merchant *not said here* |  | merchant |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | past | storm | the cross | the Tartar |  |  | as my surety | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cross=Theme to tartar=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the money |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **reach** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | merchant |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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