--- title: "Don't go bragging like that!" says a rich merchant--"why she wouldn… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: "Don't go bragging like that!" says a rich merchant--"why she wouldn't even so much as look at you," and offers to stake all that he is worth on the truth of his assertion. Who acts: rich merchant, Anastasia, merchant. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/64/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/) / 64 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 64 "Don't go bragging like that!" says a rich merchant--"why she wouldn't even so much as look at you," and offers to stake all that he is worth on the truth of his assertion. **Who acts:** rich merchant, Anastasia, merchant · **What happens:** not go, brag, say, look, offer, stake · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (rich merchant, Anastasia, merchant), 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:pg22373:14:64 # text = "Don't go bragging like that!" says a rich merchant--"why she wouldn't even so much as look at you," and offers to stake all that he is worth on the truth of his assertion. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 5 bragging brag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 stake stake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 assertion assertion NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **brag** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | like that | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | a rich merchant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | would | Anastasia | | | | | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | | 5 | **offer** | present | a rich merchant *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a rich merchant *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | merchant | | | the truth of merchant's assertion | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **assert** | | merchant | | | | | | nom assertion «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/65/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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