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title: "Fair or foul!" says he, "if I bid her, Anastasia the Beautiful will… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fair or foul!" says he, "if I bid her, Anastasia the Beautiful will kiss the crown of my head." Who acts: crowd, Anastasia. 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 clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 63

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"Fair or foul!" says he, "if I bid her, Anastasia the Beautiful will kiss the crown of my head."

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**Who acts:** crowd, Anastasia · **What happens:** say, bid, kiss, crown · **To what, where:** bout, crown, head · **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 (crowd, Anastasia), 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:pg22373:14:63
# text = "Fair or foul!" says he, "if I bid her, Anastasia the Beautiful will kiss the crown of my head."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Beautiful	Beautiful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | crowd | bout |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kiss** *in a quote* | future | Anastasia | the crown of my head |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **crown** *in a quote* |  |  | my head |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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