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title: "Whatever have you come here for, good youth? here devils abide, the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Whatever have you come here for, good youth? here devils abide, they will tear you to pieces." Who acts: Whatever, devils, feet. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 120

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"Whatever have you come here for, good youth? here devils abide, they will tear you to pieces."

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**Who acts:** Whatever, devils, feet · **What happens:** come, abide, tear · **To what, where:** you

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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 (Whatever, devils, feet), 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:pg22373:14:120
# text = "Whatever have you come here for, good youth? here devils abide, they will tear you to pieces."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
13	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	abide	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Whatever |  |  | here; here |  | for good youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **abide** *in a quote* | present | devils |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tear** *in a quote* | future | feet *= foot* | you |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to piece=Result |

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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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