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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 123

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Don't take any of it, but ask him to give you the very wretched horse which the evil spirits use for fetching wood and water.

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**Who acts:** you, evil spirits · **What happens:** not take, ask, give, use, fetch · **To what, where:** any, devil, wretched horse, you, wood

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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 (you, evil spirits), 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:pg22373:14:123
# text = Don't take any of it, but ask him to give you the very wretched horse which the evil spirits use for fetching wood and water.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | devil |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the wretched horse | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | the evil spirits | the wretched horse |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **fetch** | gerund | the evil spirits *not said here* | wood and water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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